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...become more public, Brzezinski's confidence seems to have grown. He is still thin-skinned about press criticism and tries to trace the sources of critical remarks, and he is not very comfortable with Congressmen and Senators. To remedy that failing, Hamilton Jordan has been brought into foreign policy decision making...
Whenever there has been what Brzezinski calls bite in U.S. policy toward the Russians, he has either proposed or welcomed it. For now, Carter seems to agree with the need for that bite, perhaps because he hears it advocated so often. Brzezinski sees the President from four to ten times a day. There are still no indications that he has tried to freeze out either Secretary of State Cyrus Vance or Defense Secretary Harold Brown. Both have their own private time with the President...
...Brzezinski has long had the President's ear. Events are helping him to keep...
...Zbigniew Brzezinski came into office determined to combine a "more competitive" approach toward the Soviet Union with a "more differentiated" one toward Eastern Europe. As he told TIME: "We wanted to show that the road to Eastern Europe did not necessarily lead through Moscow." A year ago, Brzezinski prepared a classified Presidential Directive setting forth three guidelines for the Executive Branch: 1) the U.S. should cultivate a closer relationship with Eastern Europe for its own sake rather than as a byproduct of detente with the Soviet Union; 2) the criteria for deciding which countries to concentrate on should include...
...Brzezinski has taken a personal interest in coordinating new initiatives toward his native Poland. In the past year Washington has extended more than $500 million in grain credits to Poland, and when Carter visited Warsaw last December, he sent his wife Rosalynn and Brzezinski to meet with Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, the assertive leader of the country's 31 million Roman Catholics. In Washington, Brzezinski has received a steady stream of visiting Polish writers, academics and journalists, most recently Krzysztof Kozlowski, an editor of the outspoken Catholic weekly Tygodnik Powszechny...