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Stasi (Staatssicherheitsdienst, State Security Service) The East German security service in operation since 1945/6 (though officially not founded until 1950). Its activities, whose vast extent was only revealed after its dissolution in 1990, contributed significantly to the survival of the Communist regime. In a country of seventeen million inhabitants, it had 91,000 full-time agents and up to 175,000 secret collaborators. In the surviving Stasi archives are files on six million people. Despite its effectiveness in internal surveillance and international spy operations, it was unable to prevent the revolution against the GDR's Communist system in 1989. To the contrary, by utilizing vast amounts of manpower and economic resources, the Stasi apparatus helped accelerate the GDR's economic collapse.
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Cam Ranh bay: Past imperfect, future conditional.
Magazine article from: Contemporary Southeast Asia; 12/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...reviews the likely future of Cam Ranh Bay in Vietnam in the light...forces in early 2002. Cam Ranh hosts a deep-water port...upgraded its facilities at Cam Ranh Bay in preparation for an expected...made extensive use of Cam Ranh Bay to launch ...
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Russia completes return of Cam Ranh Bay naval base to Vietnam
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 5/3/2002; ; 565 words
; ...officially handed back to Vietnam the Cam Ranh Bay air and naval base, a former U...States would be interested in using Cam Ranh Bay for humanitarian missions and...cooperate with any country to use Cam Ranh port for military purposes, she said...
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Vietnam not planning to lease Cam Ranh Bay to anybody: ambassador
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 10/8/2002; 390 words
; Vietnam not planning to lease Cam Ranh Bay to anybody: ambassador MOSCOW, Oct...allow any foreign state to rent Cam Ranh Bay for military purposes, Russian...media reports which said that Cam Ranh Bay might be leased to the United...
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Vietnam plans to turn former U.S. Cam Ranh Bay base into civilian airport: official
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 5/6/2002; 509 words
; ...Russia handed its military base at Cam Ranh Bay back to Vietnam, an official said...S. military offered to use Cam Ranh Bay for humanitarian missions and...cooperate with any country to use Cam Ranh port for military purposes, Foreign...
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Around Crownsville: Hungry? Cam Ranh Bay might be the ticket
Newspaper article from: Capital (Annapolis); 6/18/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...hunger? Just take a little trip to Cam Ranh Bay. Not the place between North and...their mother's home place - Cam Ranh Bay. Mr. Filer is the owner and...special touch. Kim describes the Cam Ranh Club as a beautiful, but time- consuming...
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U.S. Pacific commander: America would like to use Vietnam's Cam Ranh Bay military base
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 4/18/2002; 315 words
; ...be interested in using Vietnam's Cam Ranh Bay air and naval base for humanitarian...the possibility of port calls at Cam Ranh Bay when he visited Vietnam in February...last year it would withdraw from Cam Ranh Bay before its lease for free use...
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Vietnam to Use Cam Ranh Bay in Purpose of Socio-economic Development
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 10/18/2001; 331 words
; Vietnam intends to use its Cam Ranh Bay in the purpose of the country's...withdrawing its military base in Cam Ranh Bay. Thanh noted that the Russia...that Russia's evacuation from Cam Ranh, whose free usage by Russian navy...
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Russia, Vietnam work out legal procedures to terminate lease on base in Cam Ranh Bay
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 3/15/2002; 359 words
; ...lease on its naval base in Vietnam's Cam Ranh Bay before the agreement's scheduled...validity of the lease agreement of Cam Ranh port the two countries signed in 1979...Vietnam allowed Russia to use Cam Ranh Bay as a base for free until 2004...
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Russians to hand over naval base at Cam Ranh bay by early May
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 4/11/2002; 316 words
; ...week that the Russian naval base at Cam Ranh Bay would be transferred to Vietnam by...year that it would withdraw from Cam Ranh Bay before its lease for free use...Thursday that a ship was headed for Cam Ranh Bay to take the last consignment of...
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Vietnam to open civilian airport in Cam Ranh Bay in two months
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 3/23/2004; 313 words
; ...a former U.S. military base at Cam Ranh Bay in two months, the first step in...23-mile) highway connecting Cam Ranh to the resort city of Nha Trang is...covering about one-third of the Cam Ranh peninsula to develop international...
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Cam Ranh Bay
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military
Cam Ranh Bay a sheltered inlet off the South China Sea...airfields and a large supply base at Cam Ranh Bay, which was relinquished to the South...1972. The North Vietnamese Army seized Cam Ranh Bay in April 1975, and it was taken over...
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Vietnam, Relations with
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
...increased their ties, at Beijing's expense. The Soviet Union acquired access to the former U.S. military base at Cam Ranh Bay, and thus was able to project its naval and air power into Asia on a scale never before realized. A Treaty of Friendship...
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Fichot, Lazare-Eugène
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...1908 he discovered a new navigational route along the coast of Indochina by accurately mapping obstructions between Cam Ranh Bay and Nha Hang. In 1912 he prepared hydrographic maps of the Gironde estuary, which became an important navigational...
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Nha Trang
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...site of a major U.S. military base in the Vietnam War; the base extended 15 mi (24 km) south to the harbor of Cam Ranh Bay. The city has a commercial airport. The French developed Nha Trang as a resort, and it is still known for its beaches...
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Ho Chi Minh
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...messages to President Harry Truman requesting support. In 1946 Ho Chi Minh twice offered the United States access to Cam Ranh Bay. Ho Chi Minh led the Vietnamese people in a successful eight-year war to expel the French (1946 – 1954...
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