Our principal rival in that race is china. As far as simply the facts, the quantum spy is a novel that imagines the characters involved, the battle to see who can steal the other secrets about world changing technology, principally the story of my hero, american of chinese descent who was a cia officer, asked to penetrate the Chinese Intelligence Service and in the process learns about himself and the cia and how the world works shake him to his foundations and we see in this novel how the Chinese Intelligence Service not so familiar to readers of spy fiction, we have been with carla, the russians by world is your to us so one of the pleasures for me if it takes us into the world of state security, very secretive Chinese Intelligence Agency that is the principal antagonist in this book. Host how much of it is true . I always say in the prefaces to my books they exist in an imagined world, if you take any book i write and think it is a recipe for how to bake a cake you are going to end
Francine a little less good than expected. Tom you saw it in japan as well. One of the themes is the commodity data, showing the same gentle it is all gentle, quiet. Francine until it is not gentle anymore. Tom exactly. That is where we are right now. All in all, commodities. Francine looking forward to it. Lets get to the first word. The author is now on the table for the beer deal. Buying sab miller, giving them control of more than one fourth of the beer market. The weight was cleared for the deal went sab miller agreed to sell it stake in miller course in the u. S. Meanwhile, the worlds fourthlargest beer maker carlsberg plans to cut 2000 jobs, a 15 reduction. They are trying to reduce costs largely due to a drop in russian beer sales. Alliance of an leftwing parties has ousted the Prime Minister less than six weeks after the last election. The leader of the socialist party has asked the president to form a new government. So far, no word if it will happen. Russia is calling for a
A lot of men died, but strategically, it was a victory. I characterize this entire campaign is being the most successful of this conflict thus far. Its success is unprecedented. We are seeing americans come to grips with largescale the enemies units. Is is going to be a pattern of the war . It seems evident that the leadership in hanoi has sent down to South Vietnam regular forces. How many more, we do not know. It was a bitter and valuable experience. It taught us the value of mobility in fighting a guerrilla war. It has also pointed out the brutal fact that hanoi intends to commit a filled army to vietnam. Communists are massing in South Vietnam, and so are we. They feel we are divided. There impressed by student demonstrations. In hanoi, a student is a rare and honored member of society. The enemy knows he cannot defeat us in the field, but by killing americans, he hopes to demoralize us at home. That is what happened to france in 1954. Our armed forces are willing to take necessary
That is what we have been told up till now. But do we really know rosa parks . The answer according to our guest this evening is very definitely, no. We welcome to the center for the book tonight, dr. Danielle mcguire, assistant professor of history at Wayne State University in detroit. Her new book is at the dark end of the street black women, rape, and resistance. A new history of the Civil Rights Movement from rosa parks through the rise of black power. As her subtitle suggests, the book does not not merely shed new light on rosa parks and the beginnings of the Civil Rights Movement, it offers us nothing less than a new way of approaching an understanding both the womens history and the underpinnings of the Civil Rights Movement. It is a scholarly yet riveting narrative that traces a sordid history of Sexual Violence directed against black women in the jim crow era and illuminates how the littleknown actions of rosa parks long before that bus boycott helped create the impetus for Ci
Events includes a color guard ser olympian and historical background on world war i by old dominion history professor maw are a hammitts. This is about 20 minutes. Good morning. Welcome to the me moirl. If you are new to our fair city, welcome to norfolk and welcome to the heart of hamptons roads. Its my extreme honor and privilege to be the director here. I want to welcome you to the world war with i centennial symposium this november 14 and 15, 2014. Macarthur memorial is in its 50th year. We were dedicated in april of 1964. Our higgins is to preserve and interpret the life and times of General Macarthur. To answer the challenge from the speech to the class at west point, look toward the future yet not neglect the past. Its in that spirit that we are here today. This marks the memorial of the world war from 2014 to 2019. There is a lot more coming as we mark the centennial over the next few years. For those of you not familiar with this facility, this is the Visitor Center with the g