The event, called the Cold War, drew 74,544 fans, a record for hockey at the time.
Burlington was by no means the only American city to develop cultural and education exchanges in the Soviet Union as the cold war drew to a close.
But the moment when that process was set in train, the moment the cold war drew to a close and the division of Europe ended, was that November night in Berlin, when the wall held no more.
We can even nominate an author for this lunacy: William S Lind, a polymath of the American hard right, who sought to put rightwing activism on a new footing as the cold war drew to a close.
But just as World War II and the cold war drew the United States out of isolationism, and Iraq's invasion of Kuwait prompted the Americans to assemble an international alliance to repel it, the fight against terrorism seems likely to require global cooperation of a sort that the Bush administration previously dismissed.
In 1994, the 102d received more F-15A/B Eagles from the 32nd Fighter Group at Soesterberg Air Base, which was inactivating as part of the post Cold War draw down of forces in Europe.
The experience of American corporations in South Africa wasn't far from the minds of leading neoliberal intellectuals as the Cold War drew to a close, and international negotiators began developing the treaties that would create The World Trade Organization.
In 1993 the division was slated to move to Fort Lewis, WA and instead inactivated at Fort Ord, CA as part of the post-Cold War draw-down of the US Army, but the 2nd and 3rd Brigades of the 7th inactivated at Ft. Ord in 1993.
In contrast, just across the street sits a staid and humble building, designed as an auditorium when the Cold War was drawing to a close and then, for a time afterward, left vacant.
There was a broadly shared sense at the talks that the era of military interventions with sweeping objectivesthat had become fashionable after the Cold War was drawing to an end.
