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...battle for succession, communist forces will. Only by usurping the initiative, they argue, can the ascendance of the communists (reportedly gaining strength in the country's rural areas) be prevented. And yet, Marcos last week directed that the death penalty be dug up for the present CFIA fellow. Thus Aquino remains in a precarious position--unable to either sanction terrorist bombings or to return home and find an alternative consitituency. He takes Marcos' latest diatribes with a combined sense of equanimity and bewilderment, terming the president "paranoid," or, in more ingenuous moments, "crazy...
Following a 31-year career in one of the world's most volatile regions, Mordechai Gazit, former director general of the Israeli Ministry for Foreign Affairs, returned to the more sedate life of scholarship this year as a fellow at the Center for International Affairs (CfIA...
Gazit is excited about his work at the CfIA, but his past is still very much a part of his life. "I belong to the generation of the Israeli War for Independence," he says...
Speaking at the Center for International Affairs (CFIA), he criticized the "incoherence" of U.S. foreign policy, and said "world order theorists" in charge of the State Department are guilty of "separating diplomacy from military force...
...long hours in a cell were spent reading voraciously--everything "except articles on the Philippines, they were cut out." He devoured books by the CfIA personnel he has now met as well as Harold Robbins novels. "You can only read the heavy stuff for so long," he says. During that time Aquino came to the conclusion that "the only difference between the U.S. and the Soviet Union is America's moral anger--take away the moral anger, and you have two symmetrical superpowers." He says he feels no bitterness--he will respond to Marcos if the dictator is "sincere...