Jimmy Carter had officially ended the policy of Détente, by financially aiding the Mujahideen movement in neighboring Afghanistan, which served as a pretext for the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan six months later, with the aims of supporting the Afghan government, controlled by the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan.

Today, Sinatra still performs for charitable causes supporting US veterans who served in Vietnam, including Rolling Thunder Inc ..

They also served during the Western Desert Campaign, supporting Free French and Long Range Desert Group operations at Kufra and Jalo oases in the Libyan Desert.

The Church and its organs served as supporting and stabilizing factor in the Empire's structure.

He would also claim later ( and, it seems, not without some supporting evidence ) to have served on Danish whalers in the North Atlantic, visiting European colonies in the Caribbean and on the eastern seaboard of North America.

Until 2005, Künast served as the German Minister for Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection, known for increasing consumer protection, supporting organic farming, and expanding animal welfare.

He served in the army under Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, and, in 1601, was charged with supporting Essex's ill-fated insurrection against Queen Elizabeth, but he was acquitted of those charges.

It also served as the hub of the Pacific aerial network, supporting transient aircraft ferrying troops and supplies to — and evacuating wounded from — the forward areas — a role it would reprise during the Korean and Vietnam wars and earning it the official nickname " America's Bridge Across the Pacific ".

Thomas Randolph famously served as ambassador for Elizabeth I in Scotland from 1559, where he acquired the friendship of Mary Queen of Scots until he was accused of supporting the rebellion of James Stuart.

The area around Rio Grande City was first populated in 1846, when it served as a transfer point for supplies and soldiers supporting General Zachary Taylor ’ s invasion of Mexico.

Robert Jan van Pelt, who appears in Mr. Death to specify some of Leuchter's scholarly failures ( e. g. not consulting the large documentation archive available at Auschwitz ), served as the primary expert witness against Irving at the libel trial of Deborah Lipstadt in 2000, relating to the court the strength of the physical and documentary evidence supporting the use of that camp for gassing.

Godfrey served Henry IV loyally, supporting him even when Pope Gregory VII was battling the German king in the Investiture Controversy.

He was made deputy-governor of the Isle of Ely by Cromwell and served under Manchester in the Yorkshire campaign and at the second Battle of Newbury, afterwards supporting Cromwell in his accusations of incompetency against the general.

Cresswell ( 2006 ) argues that in his first term ( 1916 – 20 ) Bilbo had " the most successful administration " of all the governors who served between 1877 and 1917, putting state finances in order and supporting such Progressive measures as passing a compulsory school attendance law, founding a new charity hospital, and establishing a board of bank examiners.

The worldly excesses of the secular Renaissance Church, epitomized by the era of Alexander VI ( 1492 – 1503 ), intensified during the Reformation under Pope Leo X ( 1513 – 1522 ), whose campaign to raise funds in the German states to rebuild St. Peter's Basilica by supporting use of indulgences served as a key impetus for Martin Luther's 95 Theses.

He also served as the leader of the Free D. C. Movement, strongly supporting increased home rule for the District.

According to Newsweek magazine, Kapuściński served secretly as translator to the Soviet " advisors " supporting the pro-Soviet, communist MPLA faction in the Angolan conflicts of the 1970s.

Founded in 1974, this group of students served as UVa's band supporting athletics in an official capacity until 2003.

Read served as acting commander of the Arkansas during her final battle supporting the Confederate Army assaulting Baton Rouge, Louisiana on 6 August 1862.

To his credit, he broke rank from supporting his father's protégé in Neuilly-sur-Seine, the town for which Sarkozy served as mayor, and joined another party's ticket and was voted regional councillor of Neuilly-sur-Seine.

Therefore, its role was, at least unofficially, seen as home defence and as a result the TA was not used in conflicts such as the 1982 Falklands War and 1991 Gulf War ( 205 Scottish General Hospital were mobilised as a unit based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, during the 1991 Gulf War and a number of TA staff officers and others volunteered and served during the conflict either in supporting roles in Germany or within 1 ( UK ) Armoured Division in the Middle East.

Lord Ripon was a Freemason, who served as Provincial Grand Master of the West Riding and Deputy Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge of England from 1861 to 1869, and ultimately as Grand Master from 1870 until his conversion to Catholicism in 1874, following which he was generous in supporting Catholic educational and charitable works.

Itamar Franco served in the governor's seat until 2003 ( declining to seek reelection and supporting the eventual winning candidate Aécio Neves ) and was then has been the ambassador in Italy, until leaving the position in 2005.

DeBakey served in the U. S. Army during World War II and helped to revolutionize wartime medicine by supporting the stationing of doctors closer to the front lines.

In a Maclean's article covering the March 2005 founding policy convention of the new Conservative Party, Senator Pierre Claude Nolin mused that if Bachand had remained elected and participatory in the new party, he would have likely replaced Peter MacKay as deputy leader, and would have served as the new Conservative Party's chief Quebec lieutenant as part of Stephen Harper's attempts to woo Quebec voters into supporting the Tories.

Because of illness, he asked his son-in-law, actor Anthony Quinn, to direct a remake of his 1938 film The Buccaneer ; although DeMille served as executive producer, he was unhappy with Quinn's work and tried unsuccessfully to remedy the situation.

For the 2004 video game The Bard's Tale, he served as scriptwriter, improviser, and voice actor of the main character The Bard.

Thiessen served as maid of honor at 90210 co-star and best friend Jennie Garth's wedding to actor Peter Facinelli, with whom she co-starred on Fastlane.

When he returned to New York that spring, he met and fell in love with Frank Phillip Merlo ( 1922 – 1963 ), an occasional actor of Sicilian heritage who had served in the U. S. Navy in World War II.

The award is named after screen actor Jean Hersholt ( 1886 – 1956 ), who served as president of the Motion Picture Relief Fund for 18 years.

Her friend, actor William Haines, quipped, " They might have called you ' Cranberry ' and served you every Thanksgiving with the turkey!

Before becoming an actor, Milland served in the Household Cavalry.

Nimoy served as a sergeant in the U. S. Army from 1953 through 1955, alongside fellow actor Ken Berry and architect Frank Gehry.

For various fight scenes of the film, including the lightsaber duels, British actor Andrew Lawden served as Neeson's body double.

He later graduated from Princeton University with a history degree in 1954, where he was a member of the Princeton Triangle Club, the Eating Club Tiger Inn, and served in the U. S. Navy before becoming an actor.

Marfa Army Airfield served as a training facility for several thousand pilots during World War II, including the American actor Robert Sterling, before closing in 1945.

Between 1943-45 he served in the military making aviation training films, both as a narrator and an actor.

During the late 1930s, Rennie served his apprenticeship as an actor, gaining experience in technique while touring the provinces in British repertory.

* He was a great-great-grandfather of actor Bunny Breckinridge and of John B. Breckinridge who succeeded him as Attorney General of Kentucky and as a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives and who also served in the United States House of Representatives.

Although it had served him well financially, by the time of the opening of the play, he is resentful of the fact that he has become so identified with this character that it has severely limited his scope and opportunity as an actor.

The 1914 Italian silent film Cabiria was one of the first sword-and-sandal films to make use of a massively muscled character, Maciste ( played by actor Bartolomeo Pagano ) who served in this premiere film as the hero's slavishly loyal sidekick.

Besides his short stint as a disc jockey, Logroño served as a voice actor for Puerto Rico's then-active dubbing industry.

He co-hosted a morning radio program with Puerto Rican entrepreneur and musician Silverio Pérez, and served as part of the comedic team behind Desafiando a los Genios, a popular TV mock quiz show starring, among others, actor, writer and film director Jacobo Morales and Puerto Rico's premier comedic actor, José Miguel Agrelot.

* Longtime actor William Woodson ( though not credited ) served as the announcer of the series ( imploring the audience to stay tuned for the tag scene, in the episodes that had one ) and did various voice-over roles during the run, including the pre-recorded announcer of the intro / outro to Les ' newscasts, and the narrator of the trial results in the first season episode " Hold Up ".

Coincidentally he had become an actor after being paroled from San Quentin three years earlier, in 1966, where he served five and a half years for armed robbery.

Murphy served from 1965 to 1971 as U. S. Senator from California, the first notable U. S. actor to make the successful transition to politics, predating Ronald W. Reagan and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

in 1968, served in the Army during the Vietnam War, and then began his career as a professional actor and playwright with the Harlequin Dinner Theatre of Washington, D. C. and Atlanta.

Applegate was friends with actor John Wayne and in addition to teaching Wayne how to shoot, Applegate served as a technical advisor on the set of The Alamo.

While at the garage he served as chauffeur and valet for British actor Frank Pettingell.