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During a nine month stint overseas, I was constantly placed in the position of having to defend America's foreign policy. The critics were not the usual anti-U.S. protagonists. Rather, they were generally self-described supporters of the U.S. The criticism was aimed not at such traditionally deplorable foreign policy targets as U.S. intervention in Nicaragua. Instead, people were dismayed with America's way of responding to universally agreed upon trouble areas, like terrorism and international trade...
...interests" and neither did he say that Lebanon could undermine U.S. efforts for peace in the Middle East. What he did say was that the U.S. needed a "Lebanon policy" because the existing situation in Lebanon is and will further be exploited by enemies of the U.S. to sponsor anti-U.S. terrorism and to undermine any U.S.-led peace initiative in the Middle East...
...visitors and residents from hostile nations such as Libya, Iran and Syria. There are approximately 3,200 Libyans in the U.S. who have been granted temporary visas, including an estimated 1,200 students. The Government also maintains huge computer databases with information on individuals suspected of having radical, anti-U.S. associations. Meanwhile, the supersecret National Security Agency uses the world's most technologically advanced surveillance techniques to eavesdrop on questionable telephone calls and radio communications abroad and intercept and decode suspicious telex messages. To conform to U.S. privacy laws, the intercepts take place outside U.S. borders...
...Washington that he can be a tough customer. He scoffed at a counterproposal by President Reagan for eliminating medium- range nuclear missiles by 1990 and, along the way, displayed a penchant for bareknuckle bullying reminiscent of Nikita Khrushchev. Indeed, the General Secretary showed little inclination to tone down his anti-U.S. rhetoric. Quoting Karl Marx, he described capitalism as a "hideous pagan idol, who would not drink nectar but from the skulls of the slain." The U.S., he declared, is "the metropolitan center of imperialism." In part such pronouncements were intended to appease the party's Old Guard, some...
...anti-U.S. talk, though, Ortega admitted that the bonds between the two countries run deep. "We are not trying to eradicate the North American social and cultural influence," he said. "We would like to have relations with the U.S. as good as those we hold with the Soviet Union." As he drove into Managua, Ortega grew reflective. "We need peace," he said. "The future of the children is not the best here in Nicaragua...