To: Physicist
I realized the significance of this date yesterday. At a book fair, I happened to buy a Soviet pamphlet containing General Secretary Gorbachev's thoughts on the failure of the summit. I realized upon reading it that the opening date of the summit was exactly 20 years before. Quite a trophy.
2 posted on
10/12/2006 11:11:44 AM PDT by
Physicist
To: Physicist
Excellent idea, posting that contemporaneous article.
4 posted on
10/12/2006 11:17:00 AM PDT by
Ready4Freddy
(We didn't have air conditioned schools, we had ROCKS! And we LIKED it!! ;>)
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