Word: administrationitis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That prospect is upsetting to the Carter Administration, and not just because of this country's abiding, almost sentimental "special relationship" with its former colony.* Washington is concerned about preserving the Philippines as its main military springboard in the Far East. In return for $500 million in military assistance...
The spectacles in Iran and Nicaragua did not fit the pattern that Americans have grown used to in watching the rise and fall of client dictators. Far from propping up the Shah and Somoza, as the U.S. had so often been accused of doing, the Carter Administration seemed to be...
Henry Kissinger feels that the Administration's campaign of proselytizing for democracy in Iran and Nicaragua aggravated, even if it did not cause, the crises in those countries. Viewing what he regards as a dual debacle from the perspective of a once and possibly future Secretary of State, Kissinger...
Carter Administration officials vehemently reject Kissinger's complaint that they overthrew Somoza. The Sandinistas did that themselves. All the U.S. did was to administer a diplomatic coup de grâce in order to end the civil war. To preserve the status quo in Iran or Nicaragua-i.e...
Aside from quarreling over who "lost" Iran and Nicaragua, many in the Carter Administration would agree with Kissinger that there are great risks in pulling the rug out from under a longtime client without a plausible, acceptable successor well positioned to take over. "It's an unhappy fact of...