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...argued against the sale, contending that if Morocco's King Hassan II got American weapons, his opponents, the Polisario guerrillas, might solicit more help from the Soviet Union, posing the threat of another superpower confrontation in Africa. Carter instead bought the argument of National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski and Defense Secretary Harold Brown that the U.S. could not afford the downfall of Hassan, a prominent friend in the Third World. An unspoken but very real consideration: coming after the overthrow of U.S.-supported autocrats in Iran and Nicaragua, the loss of Hassan would be a major embarrassment...
...first word reached Washington, via a "secure line" telephone call to Presidential Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski from Ambassador William Gleysteen. After alerting President Carter, Brzezinski summoned a meeting of the Special Coordination Committee, whose members include Defense Secretary Harold Brown, Army Chief of Staff General Edward Meyer, CIA Deputy Director Frank Carlucci and Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher...
Trying to reassure Europeans who worry whether the U.S. would come to their assistance in case of a Soviet attack, National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski told a meeting of the Atlantic Treaty Association in Washington: "Let there be no question about our commitment and our determination to help defend Europe by all means necessary-nuclear and conventional. There are no conceivable circumstances in which we would not react to a security threat directed at our allies in Europe...
...claimed that he once talked Panama's Omar Torrijos out of seizing the Canal when negotiations with the U.S. were stalled; that he is eager to begin pulling his troops out of Africa as soon as the situation in Namibia and Zimbabwe-Rhodesia is settled; and that Zbigniew Brzezinski is personally to blame for "the mess-up" in U.S.-Cuban relations by giving President Carter bad, inflammatory advice...
...Brzezinski asked the wise men to comment on four issues involved in the crisis: the brigade, Caribbean stability, Soviet-Cuban actions in general and SALT. Then he rushed upstairs and dictated a summary of each man's position to his secretary and took a copy to the President...