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...there is a difference between such bloopers and Carter's own policy pronouncements. While he sometimes stumbles over fine points of diplomacy. Carter's remarks have generally been deliberate despite their informality. Before his news conference last week, both Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and Zbigniew Brzezinski, the White House National Security Adviser, suggested that Carter not use the term defensible borders. They proposed a more politically neutral substitute: "secure frontiers." Carter rather gingerly used both concepts and described the difference between them as "just semantics." Says TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott, assessing Carter's foreign policy...
Carter's National Security Adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, recognizes the problem. Carter's approach "doesn't mean that we don't deal with nations unless they meet some arbitrarily defined American standards of human rights. But in every case in which there is a significant violation, we ought to use some of our leverage to obtain amelioration...
Carter's National Security Adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, learned of the Uganda developments at 7 a.m. last Friday from wire-service reports. At 8:30, during the routine morning briefing, he informed the President, who asked to be kept advised every hour of what was happening. There were American intelligence reports that a high-level Cuban military delegation, probably headed by a general, had arrived in Uganda. There were no Cuban troops in sight, but it was possible that the delegation had come to discuss the question of military support. The White House decided to consult other African leaders...
NATIONAL SECURITY Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski's selection of Samuel P. Huntington, Thomson Professor of Government, as a National Security Council consultant on US-Soviet relations is deplorable for several reasons. In appointing Huntington, Brzezinski violated the spirit if not the letter of President Jimmy Carter's promise to bring people with fresh ideas into government rather than recycling the adherents of the disastrous policies and misguided ideology of past administrations. Huntington's well-documented views on the Vietnam War, his preoccupation wtih government stability at the expense of widespread democracy, and his dated expertise in this area all serve...
There is also some question as to why Brzezinski selected Huntington, whose major academic focus recently has not been U.S.-Soviet relations but the politics of the developing third world. Several weeks ago Carter administration sources intimated that Huntington was being considered for a number of other positions which, unlike the one to which he has been appointed, require confirmation by the Senate. Apparently, however, the Carter floaters of a Huntington nomination produced a response indicating that a significant proportion of both the public and Senate harbored reservations about Huntington because of his well-known political views...