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FOUR DECADES after the Cuban missile crisis, another novelist, Yann Martel, published Life of Pi, an improbable story about a lifeboat that could have become a deathboat.72
The Cold War
John Lewis Gaddis
The disproportion between the offense and its consequences left Nixon incredulous: “[A]ll the terrible battering we have taken,” he commiserated with himself shortly before leaving office, “is really pygmy-sized when compared to what we have done, and what we can do in the future not only for peace in the world but, indirectly, to effect the well-being of people everywhere
The Cold War
John Lewis Gaddis
Evidently this trade fired the imagination of the secret services, since the CIA eventually set up a triangular operation to sell weaponry to
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