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  • I sent Chernenko’s letter to President Reagan immediately with a covering memo, saying that Chernenko “accepts your approach of negotiations on both space weapons and offensive weapons, including both strategic weapons and what they call medium-range weapons, in other words INF.”

    Turmoil and Triumph George P. Shultz 1993

  • I sent Chernenko’s letter to President Reagan immediately with a covering memo, saying that Chernenko “accepts your approach of negotiations on both space weapons and offensive weapons, including both strategic weapons and what they call medium-range weapons, in other words INF.”

    Turmoil and Triumph George P. Shultz 1993

  • The threat was enough to get Tehran to test medium-range missiles in the Gulf, and its wilder heads to murmur about closing the Straits of Hormuz, thus blocking a third of the world's sea-borne oil.

    Simon Jenkins: Why Is Britain Ramping Up Sanctions Against Iran? Simon Jenkins 2012

  • After a failed U.S.-sponsored invasion by Cuban exiles at the Bay of Pigs in April 1961, he took the boldest gamble of the Cold War by placing medium-range missiles in Cuba.

    Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011

  • Iran test-fires a new medium-range missile, designed to evade radars, during its naval drill in the Gulf, increasing tension with the West over Iran's nuclear program.

    New Sanctions Target Iran Oil Sales Benoit Faucon 2012

  • The threat was enough to get Tehran to test medium-range missiles in the Gulf, and its wilder heads to murmur about closing the Straits of Hormuz, thus blocking a third of the world's sea-borne oil.

    Simon Jenkins: Why Is Britain Ramping Up Sanctions Against Iran? Simon Jenkins 2012

  • Contrail problems and bright moonlight that helped night interceptors limited operations along the Yalu to one week a month, so the medium-range bombers spent most of their time hitting airfields and communication targets in the rest of North Korea.

    Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011

  • Under the INF treaty, the Soviets agreed to destroy more than thirteen times as many medium-range missiles as the United States did, and five times as many short-range ones.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • Larry Niksch, who spent 43 years monitoring North Korea for the US congressional research service, says in a new study that the regime could miniaturise and mount a nuclear warhead on a medium-range Nodong missile within one or two years.

    North Korea begins funeral services for Kim Jong-il 2011

  • CFM's Leap-X has also been selected for the C919, a medium-range plane being developed by China's COMAC.

    CFM Gets Airbus A320 Engine Order David Pearson 2011

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