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…time. The PLO had been financially dependent on the states of the Arab Gulf and the Communist bloc. The collapse of the Soviet Union and Arafat’s support of Saddam Hussein during the Gulf War of 1991 resulted in the collapse of funding for the PLO and an end to remittances to Pal...

… yeled chutz schoolmate from the kibbutz. We trained in the whole range of commando skills. We used not only Uzis, but Soviet-made Kalashnikovs and Gurionov machine guns. We worked with detonators and explosives. We staged raids on Israeli airfields. We conducted exercises using...

…oned. He appears to relish the company of super-rich oil billionaires from the Middle East, North Africa and the former Soviet Union. The peculiar sale of his former marital home to a Kazakh businessman for £15 million after it had languished unsold for five years at £12 million...

… we faced not just the risk of being spotted on the way in. The buildup of Egyptian forces along the canal now included Soviet-made anti-aircraft missile batteries. We might easily get shot down. The mission struck the generals in the kirya as so risky as to border on the insane...

…nd pale. “Why?” we asked. “There may be a nuclear attack,” he said solemnly. “I’ve just been briefed on the presence of Soviet nuclear rockets in Cuba. Neither side is backing down. Nobody wants war, but each side is calling the other’s bluff. No one knows how this will turn out....

…trol of an incumbent leader, changes in government through fair and honest elections become all but impossible. Unlike Soviet-style communism, modern authoritari- anism is not animated by an overarching ideology or the messianic notion of an ideal future society. Nor do today's...

…he communications of the US government. The main threat to breaching U.S. government channels of communications was the Soviet. The second one was intercepting all the relevant communications and signals of foreign governments. This latter mandate included the governments of alli...

… was revealed Kazakhstan had asked for his help in recruiting investors to the country. The plea came after the former Soviet Republic's President's son-in-law had bought the Prince's former marital home for £3million above the asking price. Timur Kulibayev paid £15million for...

…ned by the antisecrecy group WikiLeaks that mentioned the dispute. [*] Mr. Nazarbayev, 70, [*]a former steel worker and Soviet-era Communist Party leader, has been in power for two decades, presiding over Central Asia's most vibrant economy. Human rights activists, however, have...

James PATTERSON questionable ties to Tunisian oligarchs, corrupt presidents of former Soviet republics, and Mu’ammar Gadhafi, among other entanglements, many of which were explored in a Vanity Fair article headlined THE TROUBLE WITH ANDREW. “The duke has a record of being loya...

…omorrow is never an excuse for not acting today. Over the years, we have worked closely together on issues relating to Soviet dissidents, the Armenian genocide, the massacres in Rwanda and Darfur, efforts to delegitimate Israel and other human rights concerns. I have sought his...

…ry” for anyone to evade NSA surveillance. Just as Robert Hanssen had deliberately compromised the NSA’s interception of Soviet communications in Washington, D.C., in the 1990s, Snowden deliberately compromised the NSA’s interception of concealed messages by potential terrorists o...

… from the ideology of the Communist Party just as effectively as Mikhail Gorbachev walked away from the essence of the Soviet Union." By 2050 Keating sees a world order with nations in terms of gross domestic product in this hierarchy: (1) China, (2) US, (3) India, (4) Japan, (...

…oned. He appears to relish the company of super-rich oil billionaires from the Middle East, North Africa and the former Soviet Union. The peculiar sale of his former marital home to a Kazakh businessman for £15 million after it had languished unsold for five years at £12 million...

…know him”: Lugovoy, interview with author. 264 It was rare: The vast majority of the fifteen American defectors to the Soviet Union in the Cold War, including Joel Barr, Morris and Lona Cohen, Victor Ham- ilton, Edward Lee Howard, George Koval, Bernon Mitchell, William Martin, I...