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...million-member party. "It is a flashy thing that attracts the attention of too many journalists," says a Mexican legislative leader. "It belongs to a tradition of internal debate within the P.R.I." A prominent political analyst is even more dismissive. "Just make one of them an ambassador somewhere nice," he predicts, "and the movement will be over...
...should have impeached President Kennedy after the Cuban Missile Crisis. During those 13 days in October 1962, President Kennedy reassured the American public that under no circumstances would we trade American missiles for the Soviet missiles in Cuba. Yet, he sent his brother Robert to the then Soviet Ambassador Dobrynin to offer just such a trade. Kennedy offered to remove our Jupiter missiles from Turkey if the Soviets would take their IL-28s out of Cuba. The deal was concluded, and a year later the Jupiter missiles were removed as quietly and inconspicuously as possible. In his later memoirs, Robert...
...Ambassador Cooper countered by declaring hissupport for SDI as a defensive mechanism toprevent nuclear attack. He added that the SovietUnion engaged in similar research and that the twonations should cooperate to strengthen defensivetechnology...
...future world of greatly reduced nuclearweapons depends on the [Soviet Union's]restraint," Ambassador Cooper said. "The proposition isambitious, but not fantasy...
DOWNRIGHT SILLINESS also makes a cameo appearance in the book. Mandelbaum and Talbott portray the Administration's revocation of the Soviet ambassador's limousine privileges as a significant turning point in President Reagan's "counterrevolution" against detente. That's the only concrete example they give of the Administration's cool attitude toward the Soviets. Symbolism may be important, but surely the Administration has taken more significant actions than forcing the ambassador to enter the State Department by the main lobby...