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Former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski came to the Law School last night and charged President Reagan with playing too small a role in foreign affairs...
...town for a speech before the World Affairs Council yesterday afternoon Brzezinski delivered essentially the same address to a crowd of about 300 filling a Langdell auditorium despite a packed Kennedy School panel discussion featuring Presidential Counselor Edwin Meese III that look place at the same time...
Reagan's patchy record in foreign affairs, though, is reviving the reputations of some who used to tend the store. Zbigniew Brzezinski, once associated with the confusions of Carter's policy, now gets respectful attention in the papers. So does Carter, when he is talking about Arabs and Israelis. Henry Kissinger, anathema to Reagan's right-wing supporters, has been called in as a consultant by Secretary of State George Shultz. "The reason guru-grabbing has come into such vogue is that a strategy vacuum exists within the divided Reagan White House," writes conservative Columnist William Safire...
Some American experts consider the wary Administration attitude a mistake, and urge wholly new proposals. Zbigniew Brzezinski, an emphatic hard-liner when he was Jimmy Carter's National Security Adviser, advocates three specific U.S. offers: 1) an international agreement trading Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan for a guarantee to the U.S.S.R. of Afghan neutrality; 2) an agreement on Poland offering Western economic assistance in exchange for internal liberalization; 3) a sharp reduction in the number of Soviet tanks stationed in East Germany in return for "a significant cut in U.S. battlefield nuclear weapons in Central Europe...
...vocal group of the Shah's friends approached Vance and Brzezinski repeatedly and on occasion appealed directly to me. They had an ally in Zbig, but could not convince me or Cy. Each time, we explained the potential danger to those Americans still in Iran, emphasizing that the Shah had been living comfortably in Morocco, the Bahamas and now Mexico. Each time, they went away partially mollified, only to return again. Some were merely representing the Shah's interests, while others, like Zbig, thought we must show our strength and loyalty to an old friend even...