Word: administrationitis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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As so often in diplomatic history, the current crisis had an almost innocuous beginning. In mid-August, U.S. intelligence agencies concluded (from yet undisclosed evidence) that Soviet combat forces, as distinct from advisers, were in Cuba. At that point, the matter might have been quietly clarified and even settled by...
It is now certain that the dispute is going to have a serious impact on U.S. foreign policy, on the Administration, and on the political future of Jimmy Carter. Nothing the President manages to work out short of outright capitulation by the Soviets is likely to mollify the hard-nosed...
The Administration has been arguing that although the Soviet brigade does not threaten the U.S. militarily, it does endanger the nation's security interests. But even while his President was talking tough, Vance was cautioning against overdramatizing the issue. Three weeks before, in the first major Administration statement on...
In what seemed to be a tacit admission that the Administration has not handled the Soviet troops affair with sufficient skill, Carter enlisted about a dozen veteran foreign policy experts to study the impasse and suggest possible ways of ending it. Seven of these "wise men," as they were called...
For 8½ hr. the seven were closeted at CIA headquarters at Langley, Va., scrutinizing the data on the Soviet troops in Cuba and cross-examining U.S. intelligence chiefs. Over the weekend the seven and the other members (including former Secretaries of State Dean Rusk and Henry Kissinger) were to...