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...match and an arrogance when challenged that compounds its difficulties. Back in 1978 Alistair Cooke defined the malady: "The Post is suffering from radiation, or smartass, sickness after overlong exposure to Nixon & Co." The result has been some notable missteps, such as a leering and erroneous account of Zbigniew Brzezinski's sexual behavior and a Pulitzer-prizewinning story that proved to be a phony. So when the Carters challenged the bugging item and demanded a retraction, Executive Editor Ben Bradlee characteristically asked: "How do you make a public apology-run up and down Pennsylvania Avenue bare-bottom, shouting...
...there could develop the will to control the trade of conventional arms, just as there is now a general desire to control the proliferation of nuclear weapons, it would in theory be possible to make a beginning toward restraint. Suggests David Aaron, former assistant to Zbigniew Brzezinski on Carter's National Security Council...
...Administration also won the backing of 16 former defense and national security officials-including Henry Kissinger, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Robert McNamara and Melvin Laird- who gathered at the White House to proclaim their support. Said Kissinger: "I believe the sale is essential for the peace process in the Middle East." The Administration hopes to pick up Jimmy Carter's public support after he returns from the Sadat funeral...
Meanwhile, as part of the peace process, both Fahd and Sadat were urging the U.S. to overcome its reluctance to recognize and negotiate with the P.L.O. Last week Zbigniew Brzezinski, former President Jimmy Carter's National Security Adviser, said that the time had come for "some form of dialogue." Such a step, he said, would "encourage the P.L.O. to be more moderate and lead to its involvement in resolving the West Bank and Gaza Strip issues." Washing ton's standing policy for years has been that it will not deal with the P.L.O. until that organization recognizes Israel...
...example, Zbigniew Brzezinski was in Europe last week burnishing the dismal foreign policy record of Jimmy Carter, for whom Brzezinski was National Security Adviser, and suggesting that Reagan's venture into international management so far was amateurish. The Reaganites, complained former Ambassador to Moscow Malcolm Toon not long ago, "have no foreign policy at all." His was the bluntest of many voices on that issue...