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...Brzezinski and other U.S. policymakers are acutely aware of the danger that the Soviets might react swiftly and brutally, as they did in Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968, if their control were to be seriously subverted in Eastern Europe. But at the same time, the Soviet Union is finding it harder than ever to meet its satellites' need for better living standards. The U.S. policy is predicated on the belief that Moscow is more afraid of riots by Polish workers over low wages and high food prices than of Brzezinski's "mischiefmaking" in Poland, and therefore the Kremlin...
...better ways to help beleaguered friends. But then THE BETTMANN ARCHIVE Carter's political weakness surfaced. Talking tough was a way to rally American voters and foreign leaders, a bit of saber rattling that almost seemed to fulfill a script lightly pondered last fall by National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski. Talking to some congressional aides, Brzezinski said it might be good for Carter if he were to have a "Mayaguez," recalling the ship seizure by Cambodians in which Gerald Ford counterattacked with Marines and raised his prestige. It might, suggested Brzezinski only partially seriously, show Carter's resolve...
...White House when a good clean crisis is in the offing, with bad guys to denounce and admired allies standing shoulder to shoulder. Then a series of political meetings between Carter's domestic tacticians Hamilton Jordan and Jody Powell fed riveting (even exaggerated) language into Carter's speeches. Brzezinski, back from China and enjoying new resonance with his President, hit the airwaves via Meet the Press with still sterner talk. Although he went along with the tougher approach, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance moved from Cabinet Room to presidential office counseling his brand of calm deliberation, which in some ways...
...Carter has grappled with his problems during the past weeks, there have been hints that strong men like Brzezinski, even without willing it, expanded their influence to fill the vacuums created by the President's hesitations. In some cases, Carter benefited. Senators Howard Baker and Abe Ribicoff seized the initiative on the plane sales to the Middle East. Congressmen Tom Foley and James Jones moved out ahead of the White House to get something going on wheat prices and the jammed-up tax bill...
...bore the Washington press corps," Hess writes in the Washington Post. "Reporters in the capital have had a steady diet of excitement in recent years-with the exception of the brief Ford interregnum-and have come to require bigger and bigger doses of news intoxicants." Certainly neither Vance nor Brzezinski is as fascinating as Kissinger (their side comments are never as memorable as his), and Carter isn't as outlandish as Lyndon Johnson or as malignant as Nixon. What to do then...