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Competing Daily. But papers are a CIA staple. Each day the agency provides two classified intelligence summaries. One, called the "President's Daily Brief," goes to only five people: Carter, Vice President Walter Mondale, Vance, Secretary of Defense Harold Brown and National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski. The other, the "National Intelligence Daily," omits a few supersecret items and circulates to about 100 high officials. Yet at the White House, a competing daily intelligence summary from the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR) is considered superior. The INR staff was shaped and honed by former Secretary...
...outrage. Washington publicly denounced both Smith's government and the raid into Mozambique as illegal. To emphasize the point, South Africa's ambassador to Washington, Donald Sole (who represents Rhodesia's interests), was informed of the Administration's displeasure by National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski. Britain also sent Smith a stern message, and the two countries began drawing up a resolution of condemnation to put before the United Nations Security Council...
...democracies, North-South relations, Africa, nuclear proliferation. The President put his stress on promoting democracy and justice, not on seeking a strategic balance among world powers. Under Kissinger, regional conflicts were seen as significant mainly as they affected the rivalry between Moscow and Washington. As National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski told TIME after the speech, Carter was saying that "we need a wider set of relationships in a world in which traditional concerns of war and peace are now being matched by new problems of social justice and development." Critics of the President's policies complained that...
This hard-line attitude is precisely what worries Washington, which was unprepared for Begin's victory. State Department and White House experts had predicted a narrow Labor win; when National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski was alerted to an early projection that Labor was out, he could hardly believe it. "No, no," he said. "That's wrong." Solidly committed to a resumption of Geneva peace talks by autumn, the Carter Administration had assumed that it would be dealing with Shimon Peres?who was admittedly a hawk as Defense Minister, but who had expressed in principle his belief that Israel could return...
...association has invited Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, U.N. general secretary Kurt Waldheim, and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 to speak at the event, which is scheduled for the second week in June...