Reagan, Cold War hardliner who had labeled USSR the Evil Empire just four years earlier, was all smiles with Gorbachev, Soviet reformer. ... In Gorbachev, Reagan found Russian partner who also viewed nuclear weapons as essentially unusable, says Soviet English, Pavel Palazhchenko... ..…
In smaller conflicts and interventions, the American military withdrew from Lebanon in 1983 after some 220 Marines (and 20 other service personnel) were killed in a suicide bombing and the until-then hawkish President Ronald Reagan realized he’d stepped into an unwinnable morass. ..…
At the beginning of February 2019, the Trump administration announced that, in August, the U.S. government will withdraw from the Reagan era Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty―the historic agreement that had banned U.S. and Russian ground-launched cruise missiles―and would proceed to..…
robust 1980s recovery from recession, economy for more than decade, doubling of income tax revenues during Reagan years, and the creation of about 35 million jobs were the results of that 1982 law.. ..…
Pendley, former midlevel Interior in Reagan administration, for decades has championed ranchers and others in standoffs with the government over grazing and other uses of public lands. ..…
During the Reagan administration, Griffin played a central role in the military’s Strategic Defense Initiative, an ambitious idea of space-based weaponry dubbed by some as “Star Wars.” . . . . . ..…
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