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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (48892)	8/18/2005 6:14:27 AM
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George F. Kennan was an advisor, diplomat, political analyst, and historian, best known as "the father of containment" and as a key figure in the emergence of the Cold War. During his term as the State Department's first director of the Policy Planning Staff in the late 1940s, his writings gave rise to the Truman Doctrine and the U.S. foreign policy of "containing" the Soviet Union, thrusting him into a lifelong role as a leading authority on the Cold War. His "Long Telegram" from Moscow in 1946, and the subsequent 1947 article "Sources of Soviet Conduct" argued that the Soviet regime was inherently expansionistic and that its influence had to be "contained" in areas of vital strategic importance to the United States. These texts quickly emerged as foundational texts of the Cold War, expressing the Truman administration's new anti-Soviet policy. Kennan also played a leading role in the development of definitive Cold War programs and institutions, most notably the Marshall Plan. Shortly after the doctrine had been enshrined as official U.S. policy, Kennan began to criticize the policies that he had seemingly helped launch, and Kennan's influence was increasingly marginalized. He continued to be a leading thinker in international affairs as a faculty member of the Institute for Advanced Study from 1956 until his death at age 101 in March 2005.

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (48892)	8/18/2005 7:26:23 AM
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August 18 Death of Genghis Khan Genghis Khan, ink and colour on silk; in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan. 1227: Genghis Khan, who died on this day, was a warrior and ruler of genius who, starting from obscure and insignificant beginnings, brought all the nomadic tribes of Mongolia into a rigidly disciplined military state. He chose as his successor his son Ögödei and, to ensure that his other sons would obey Ögödei, passed on to him an army and a state in full vigour. At the time of his death, Genghis Khan had conquered the landmass extending from Beijing to the Caspian Sea, and his generals had raided Persia and Russia. 1896: According to lore, more than 200 outlaws from regional gangs gathered at Brown's Hole in the American West, where Butch Cassidy proposed to organize a Train Robbers' Syndicate, which became familiarly known as the Wild Bunch. 1786: The city of Reykjavík was designated the administrative capital of Iceland. 1587: Virginia Dare, the first American child of English parents, was born on Roanoke Island—the first attempted English settlement in North America. 1572: Henry IV, king of Navarra, and Margaret of Valois of the French royal house were married. 1477: Mary of Burgundy married Archduke Maximilian, son of the Habsburg emperor Ferdinand III.