Khrushchev earlier explained to Mao Zedong that "Berlin is the testicles of the West. Every time I want to make the West scream, I squeeze on Berlin."[135] NATO formally rejected the ultimatum in mid-December and Khrushchev withdrew it in return for a Geneva conference on the German ...
Cold War – The Bay of Pigs invasion in March, just two months into the Kennedy administration, Air Force Chief Curtis LeMay was called into a meeting at the Pentagon with the Joint Chiefs. He would represent the Air Force because White was out of town. LeMay noticed that there was someth...
Winning the COLD WAR; Instead of blowing up, communism simply caved in like a hollow log.(NEWS)Black, Eric
No one has explained what the leopard was seeking at that altitude. “The marvellous thing is that it's painless,”he said.“That's how you know when it starts.” “Is it really?” “Absolutely. I'm awfully sorry about the odor though. That must bother you.” “Don't!
He simply woke, looked out the open door at the moon and unrolled his trousers and put them on. He urinated outside the shack and then went up the road to wake the boy. He was shivering with the morning cold. But he knew he would shiver himself warm and that soon he would be ...
After the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the jihadists had gone quiet here in the homeland, but that attack was enough of a scare to crank up the contract machine and bulk up the budget for electronic surveillance in an agency hurting from the end of the Cold War. By 2000, Hayden & ...
Reading Passage 1 You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13. which are based on Reading Passage 1 below. Indoor Pollution Since the early eighties we have been only too aware of the devast…
The progressives, of course, thought it was simply the right thing to do. As Trooper A. E. Surridge, another reservist and a member of the daily life committee later explained to his AI9 interrogator, peace was obviously in every country’s interest, not least Britain’s.[127] Many ordi...
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英语听力题库.pdf,2006年 12月 2 3 日大学英语新四级 (CET-4)真题试卷 Part I riting (30 minutes) 11. A) Plan his budget carefully. B) Give her more information. C) Ask someone else for advice. D) Buy a gift for his girlfriend. 12. A) She* 11 have some chocol