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*** Died in Your Arms Tonight ( hc, 192 pages, 2009, ISBN 0-7851-4459-5 ; tpb, 2010, ISBN 0-7851-4485-4 ) includes:
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*** " An autonomous political unit comprising a number of villages or communities under the permanent control of a paramount chief "
*** Radio button – control which can be clicked upon to select an option from a selection of options from which only one can be selected at a time.
*** Split button – control combining a button ( typically invoking some default action ) and a drop-down list with related, secondary actions
*** A pull-chain present along with the variable-speed control ; the dial can be set in one place and left there, with the pull-chain serving only to turn the fan on and off.
*** Full triangle renderer including setup engine, MPEG-1 decoder hardware, DSP for audio and various kinds of DMA control and port access
*** Note: Erding, Fürstenfeldbruck, Landsberg, Kaufbeuren and Neubiberg Air Bases, although nominally under USAF control, were being used to train German Air Force pilots.
*** Opioids provide more potent pain control and the weaker members such as codeine may be available over the counter in combination with paracetamol ( co-codamol ).
*** Regional Command and Control Centre provides the means for exercising control over resources both at regional and district levels.
*** The Virtual Earth Map control, an ActiveX control, which lets users make requests via JavaScript to an AJAX map object
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Krulak's staff assignments included: operations officer, 2nd Battalion 9th Marines ( 1977 – 1978 ); chief of the Combat Arms Monitor Section at Headquarters Marine Corps, Washington, D. C. ( 1978 – 1979 ); executive assistant to the Director of Personnel Management, Headquarters Marine Corps ( 1979 – 1981 ); Plans Office, Fleet Marine Forces Pacific, Camp H. M. Smith, Hawaii ( 1982 – 1983 ); executive officer, 3rd Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Expeditionary Brigade ; assistant chief of staff, maritime pre-positioning ships, 1st MEB ; assistant chief of staff for operations, 1st Marine Expeditionary Brigade ; and the military assistant to the assistant secretary of defense for command, control, communications and intelligence, Office of the Secretary of Defense.
The Wassenaar Arrangement ( full name: The Wassenaar Arrangement on Export Controls for Conventional Arms and Dual-Use Goods and Technologies ) is a multilateral export control regime ( MECR ) with 41 participating states including many former COMECON ( Warsaw Pact ) countries.
Arms control is a term for restrictions upon the development, production, stockpiling, proliferation, and usage of weapons, especially weapons of mass destruction.
Arms control is typically exercised through the use of diplomacy which seeks to impose such limitations upon consenting participants through international treaties and agreements, although it may also comprise efforts by a nation or group of nations to enforce limitations upon a non-consenting country.
Arms control treaties and agreements are often seen as a way to avoid costly arms races which would prove counter-productive to national aims and future peace.
Arms control can even be a way of maintaining the viability of military action by limiting those weapons that would make war so costly and destructive as to make it no longer a viable tool for national policy.
The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks ( SALT ) between the United States and Soviet Union in the late 1960s / early 1970s led to further weapons control agreements.
Pre-eminent among these organizations is the Arms Control Association, founded in 1971 to promote public understanding of and support for arms control.
Major foreign policy events during his term of office included the normalization of relations with the People's Republic of China ( and the severing of ties with the Republic of China ); the signing of the second Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty ( SALT II ); the brokering of the Camp David Accords ; the transition of Iran from an important U. S. client state to an anti-Western Islamic Republic, encouraging dissidents in Eastern Europe and emphasizing human rights in order to undermine the influence of the Soviet Union ; the financing of the mujahideen in Afghanistan in response to the Soviet deployment of forces there and the arming of these rebels to counter the Soviet invasion ; and the signing of the Torrijos-Carter Treaties relinquishing overt U. S. control of the Panama Canal after 1999.
The whole affair, which became known as the Arms Crisis, allowed Lynch to stamp his control on his government, but would eventually lead to deep division in Fianna Fáil for many decades to come.
He had finally gained complete control of the party, having neutralized his rivals for leadership during the Arms Crisis, and initiated Fianna Fáil's electoral comeback by securing the election of its candidate, Erskine H. Childers, as President of Ireland in 1973, defeating the odds-on favourite, the National Coalition's Tom O ' Higgins.
Under conditions of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, all of the 44th Missile Wing's Minuteman silos and launch control centers were slated for demolition with the exception of Sites Delta-01 and Delta-09.
The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks ( SALT ) refers to two rounds of bilateral talks and corresponding international treaties involving the United States and the Soviet Union — the Cold War superpowers — on the issue of armament control.
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