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...which the alliance is confronting a potentially disastrous change in public opinion. According to a London Observer poll, 53% of Britons would now like to see the U.S. withdraw its bases from their country. Other surveys show that higher defense spending?which the U.S. has asked of NATO allies???is favored by only one-third of Britons, 15% of West Germans and fewer than 10% of Belgians and Dutch. Opposition to the new U.S. missiles in the countries where deployment is planned ranges from 39% in West Germany (29% favored the missiles, and the remainder were undecided...
Haig contributed to the tension when, with the best of intentions, he sought to clear up any potential confusion about whether the U.S. Government was functioning, particularly among America's allies???and enemies?abroad. He was in the Situation Room about...
...could have delayed their eventual birth and triumph. Sick and tired of the vast, clogged federal machine; sick and tired of being broke; fed up with useless programs, crime, waste, guilt; not to mention shame in the eyes of the world?derision from our enemies, dismay from our allies???fed up with all that, and to put a fine point on it, fed up with Jimmy Carter, what else would the nation do but hang a right...
...hang a man, and one quiet meeting results in a British victory over some brash "cousins" in the CIA. Cruelty abounds, but so does guilt. Smiley believes implicitly in the need for clandestine agents, but he knows that his scholarly gains will soon be absorbed by his dreaded allies???the Americans...
...President-elect vows to pay much attention to strengthening ties to traditional U.S. allies???Western Europe, Japan, Latin America. Europeans are worried by his on-again, off-again statements about pulling some U.S. troops out of the Continent. Not only must he assure a skeptical Europe that he is firmly committed to NATO, but he must also work to strengthen the alliance against the continuing and ominous buildup of Soviet bloc forces. Far more important, he has to face a Western Europe racked by economic problems and political unrest, with the left rising fast...