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...crisis more and more hostile to the U.S., India and Pakistan both vying for Soviet favor, a Soviet base in South Yemen, the Afghanistan occupation, a Soviet base in Ethiopia, Cubans and East Germans all over East Africa, Central America in anti-U.S. turmoil. And the last conference of the nonaligned passed the most virulently anti-American resolutions in the history of the movement...
Previous Administrations might not have paid adequate attention to the human rights issue, but the simplistic proclamation of human rights has too often undermined pro-Western governments. They are replaced not by democratic alternatives but by totalitarian, radical, anti-American, anti-Western ones. This seems to be happening in Nicaragua. Each of these changes brings a sort of rock slide. We now have crises in El Salvador, possibly in Honduras, and sooner or later this will have its effect in Mexico. So I agree with Brzezinski that we need a coherent policy for the Third World, but we have been...
...major task for a new foreign policy is educational. Americans must understand that the biggest threat we face is not a classic military one but the conjunction of the superpowers' contest with an increasingly revolutionary world of exacerbated nationalisms and shaky nations, many of which could become fiercely anti-American unless we find ways of peacefully preventing, moderating or deflecting such explosions...
...weary but exhilarated diplomats and pelted them with flowers. All over Iran, millions of people marched in a display of national solidarity to protest what President Abolhassan Banisadr called the "conspiracies of the U.S. and Iraq's fascist government." At Tehran University, a crowd roared its approval of anti-American resolutions while chanting "God is great!" -raising fresh fears for the hostages trapped in the middle of the tumult. In Washington, where supporters of the hostages held candlelight vigils near the Iranian embassy, dozens of Iranian students demonstrated in front of the White House and bowed toward Mecca...
Though Banisadr joined his countrymen in making radical, anti-American statements last week, he also let it be known that the U.S. had overlooked a concession made by Khomeini. While refusing to take control of the hostages, Khomeini said that they could have visitors "under the supervision of the authorities." The earlier restrictions he had put on visits wrecked the U.N. commission that was in Tehran to negotiate last month...