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...complexity of the superpower relationship. But it also probably reflects Carter's inability so far to reconcile the conflicting views of his two key foreign policy advisers: Cyrus Vance, who generally favors dealing with Moscow in a quiet and conciliatory manner, and National Security Affairs Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, who by and large advocates a tougher line. The Vance-Brzezinski differences, though firmly denied by the White House, affect much of the handling of foreign policy. Brzezinski's aides are often angry over what they regard as the State Department's unresponsiveness, its constant leaks...
Reversing the trend of recent years, the hawks now have control. Led by National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski and a hard-line group from Congress, they convinced Carter that he had to respond to the Soviets forcefully and with more than words. Russia's threatening energy shortage, they argued, combined with its growing dependence on American technology, meant that a ban on certain exports could win political concessions...
Bilateral relations have also been damaged by the confusion that has characterized too much of the Administration's diplomacy. Last March, for instance, Carter delivered a tough speech at Wake Forest University, drafted primarily by National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, warning the Soviets of U.S. military power. The very next day, one of Vance's top aides telephoned the Soviet ambassador to call his attention to more conciliatory parts of the speech...
Then in Annapolis last month, Carter gave a speech that attempted to be both tough and accommodating at the same time. Moscow, predictably, chose to hear only the contentious half and issued a blast at the U.S. through Pravda. If the difference between the Vance and Brzezinski views were not enough, Moscow must have been astonished-and delighted-when Ambassador Andrew Young chose this of all weeks to venture the ab surd idea that the U.S. had "hundreds, perhaps even thousands of ... political prisoners...
President Carter has accused Moscow of using the Cubans as surrogates to interfere in "the internal affairs of Africa." Zbigniew Brzezinski has denounced the Cubans as "international marauders" who are doing the Kremlin's dirty work in the Third World. But Premier Fidel Castro's escalating military involvement in Africa has some homegrown and homefront benefits, as TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott discovered on an eleven-day visit to Cuba. His report...