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PRESIDENT REAGAN'S decision last week to lift sanctions against American and foreign companies helping construct the Soviet natural gas pipeline to Western Europe ended an embarrassing and potentially dangerous chapter in United States relations with its key allies. The President's move, which came after months of intensive negotiations with the Europeans, had been expected for some time: it was only a question of how the Administration could drop the sanctions and still manage to save face. By simultaneously announcing an end to the trade restrictions and an agreement with the allies on overall economic strategy toward the Soviet...
Carter entitles his lengthy Camp David chapter "Thirteen Days," a name that recalls Robert F. Kennedy '48's identically named and equally breathtaking account of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Day by day, he describes his meetings with Begin and Sadat on the grounds of the presidential retreat: the initial hope, the long period of pessimism, Begin's intransigence, Sadat's frustrated attempt to leave midway through the talks, and the final whirlwind day of settlement...
Carter is also unexpectedly silent on the 1980 campaign, devoting to it one short chapter. Here, one senses that his honesty ebbs. According to Crisis, Hamilton Jordan's account of the last year of the Carter Administration, the President was obsessed with re-election, and deeply bitter throughout at his Democratic challenger, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.). His machinations during the primary race against Kennedy--pumping huge federal grants into states with upcoming primaries--are well-known, yet Cart-here opts for the literary parallel of his 1980 "Rose Garden strategy": he simply refuses to enter the fray...
Oddly enough, Carter's treatment of the Iranian hostage crisis, though substantial, is not as complete or as interesting as Jordan's. One can only speculate that, here too, the episode proved so embarrassing and politically fatal that he prefers to forget about it. Instead, he devotes a small chapter to defending Office of Management and Budget head Bert Lance, a personal friend whom he describes as "a good country banker." Lance had been forced to resign his post because of financial improprieties--one wonders why Carter feels compelled to devote so much space to clearing a friend's name...
...Last year was an effort to educate the public just about the effects of nuclear war, but now we want to educate people about actual arms control, Paula Gutleve, director of the Boston chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR), said earlier this week...