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...playing an important role in the Salvadoran struggle. Said Sol Linowitz, one of the negotiators of the Panama Canal Treaty: "We found it sobering and reason for concern. We found what we were shown to be credible and quite persuasive." Added Jimmy Carter's National Security Adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski: "Disturbing." William Rogers, Richard Nixon's first Secretary of State, called the case "overwhelming" and added that it was the "duty of patriotic Americans to support their government when its position is sound...
...created as an autonomous unit within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). The main objective of CFIA was--and remains--research of problems and trends in international relations. The impact of the center on U.S. foreign policy is apparent: at one time or another Henry Kissinger, Zbigniew Brzezinski and Thomas Schelling worked on CFLA projects. Today, the CFIA is the largest university-based center for international affairs research in the United States...
During the Carter Administration, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance argued that arms control was so important that it ought to be insulated from linkage. National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski retorted that Congress would impose punitive sanctions anyway, so the Administration had better Stay one jump ahead and exert some linkage of its own. But with the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in late 1979, domestic political support for arms control and détente all but evaporated...
institutions. The accumulated stress spells fear. Zbigniew Brzezinski, National Security Adviser to Jimmy Carter, pulled his trench coat around him in Washington the other morning and said, "The foreign policy crisis that I predicted for late winter is starting to develop by early winter." He cited four areas-Poland, the Middle East, Central America and China-that have reached critical mass against a dispiriting background of European neutralism, Third World alienation, frustrations about nuclear arms...
...indecision within the President's council about what we should do. Brzezinski's counterpart from the Nixon-Ford years, Henry Kissinger, sees the next months as one of the most critical junctures in postwar American history, ranking with the 1956 Suez and Hungarian crises and the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961. "It is almost exactly a generation since the great creative acts of the immediate postwar years were put in place," says Kissinger, referring to such landmarks as the Marshall Plan and the formation of the Atlantic Alliance. The key tests today, in Kissinger...