Please check back often as this is regularly updated. 1  Rim Exit Devices. 2  Rim Device: This type is used on single doors or pairs of doors that have a vertical mullion (either removable or fixed) in between the doors. The strike plate is surface mounted on the frame (or mullion).
Mikhail Gorbachev was the last General Secretary of the Soviet Union. He brought about massive economic, social, and political changes and helped bring an end to both the Soviet Union and the Cold War.
The Soviet Union lost the Cold War, but it was not defeated by American defense spending. Former Soviet officials insist that Gorbachev's decisions to withdraw Soviet forces from Afghanistan and to end the arms race were made despite the Reagan buildup and SDI.he Cold War ended despite President Reagan's arms buildup, not because of it--or so former President Gorbachev told the authors by Richard Ned Lebow and Janice Gross Stein.