Political difficulties in deploying these missiles on foreign soil prompted the United States to develop ICBMs, so that by late 1963 Thor and Jupiter had been terminated.
Most of the Gaza Strip's imports now pass largely unimpeded through tunnels that are wide enough to carry cattle, cars, anti-tank missiles and foreign radicals.
And then there are the "culture wars," a lazy phrase that at one point served as a shorthand for the political agenda of the Christian right, but which has recently expanded to refer to any controversial topic that doesn't involve tax brackets or firing cruise missiles into foreign countries.
Reckless foreign missile sales and human rights abuses continue, as do allegations of international drug trafficking.
A Russian defense company worker was convicted Friday of passing missile secrets to foreign intelligence operatives in the latest espionage case amid a cold spell in Moscow's relations with Washington.
In recent weeks Washington has been seeking to deflate Russian opposition through proposals for increased defense cooperation, including joint exercises of tactical antimissile systems and American assistance to upgrade Moscow's early warning system to detect foreign missile launchings.
The secretary's main contact with the Russians on missile defense is Foreign Minister Igor S. Ivanov, with whom he has met six times but who is regarded in Moscow as a minor player.
The operation resulted in the arrest of two leaders of an Albany mosque, Mohammed M. Hossain and Imam Yassin M. Aref, on charges that they conspired with a man who claimed to have ties to Islamic terrorists in laundering $50,000 in payments for a foreign missile that he showed them.
Dr. M. thought they were missiles from some foreign country carrying out reconnaissance missions over our atomic-energy plants.
