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...Have a well-articulated world view, says Zbigniew Brzezinski, who as a professor and later Jimmy Carter's National Security Adviser dealt with four Secretaries of State: "The Secretary must have the ability to integrate very complex and varied trends into patterns worldwide so that the U.S. can have definite priorities and be able to define its objectives clearly." Other experts like Hoffmann feel that the Secretary must not become prisoner of a rigid view to which he tries to make every world event conform. But unless the foreign policy chief can relate events in one part...
...honestly stated. The leaker always has some self-serving motive, good or bad, but gets off scot-free while accomplishing his purpose. Think of how often in the past year "well informed" newspaper stories about policy debates over Iran, Afghanistan or Iraq have implied that National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski and the Pentagon are decisive and tough, while the State Department is waffling and weak-kneed...
...raise our glasses in the air for everyone we know. For A. Simone Reagor, Eugene Genovese, Lyndon Larouche and Aglaia Senese, Ned Coll, Larry Bird, Meryl Streep and Abbie Hoffman, Ben Schatz, Richard Frye, Cyrus Vance and Stanley Hoffmann, Baruj Benacerraf, Muhammad Ali, Simon Schama and Selwyn Cudjoe, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Ann Ramsay, Nathan Huggins and Pat Sorrento, Al Dershowitz and The Quincy House Two, Shirley Hufstedler and Pere Ubu, Charlie Beckwith, Walter Cronkite, Alex Bok and Alex Haig, Francis Duehay, John Travolta, Sid Vicious and Jim Craig. Theda Skocpol, Lewis Brooks, Felix Rohatyn and Jorge Hankamer, Andy Warhol, Jerry Falwell...
Meanwhile, the outgoing Administration was quarreling over what had been the failures of U.S. foreign policy in the past four years. Brzezinski squared off once again against Cyrus Vance, his adversary when Secretary of State. Brzezinski said last week that he interpreted Reagan's victory as signifying that Americans are ready to back a "policy of assertive competition" with the Soviets. Brzezinski implied that the Administration, when it agreed with the State Department, had been too soft on the Kremlin. He said U.S. lack of response ,to Moscow's sup port of Ethiopia in its war with Somalia...
...believes that Brzezinski puts too much emphasis on the "use of military power or bluff, ignoring, in my judgment, the political, the economic and trade aspects of our relationship with the Soviet Union...