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Informed that the plane was down, the president therefore authorized an official lie: a State Department press spokesman announced that a weather aircraft had simply wandered off course. Khrushchev
The Cold War
John Lewis Gaddis
But then, after only five more moon landings over the next three and a half years, Nixon suspended the manned exploration of space altogether, leaving future discoveries to be postponed indefinitely. Which emperor’s behavior will seem stranger 500 years hence? It is difficult to say.
The Cold War
John Lewis Gaddis
Iraq received massive financial support from the Gulf States, above all from Saudi Arabia, and billions in loans from Washington – though these, since the Iraqis were now obliged to import their wheat from the US, had the effect of boosting the American economy
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