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Seeking a way to rattle the chessboard, McFarlane reasoned that a defensive research program would attract bipartisan support at home and might someday be useful in Geneva. He mentioned these possibilities to Reagan, knowing he would be receptive. But McFarlane was still a relatively junior player. Though he quickly persuaded Clark that the new policy should be considered, he needed another ally of standing, one who shared Reagan's moral distaste for those cocked nuclear pistols. That ally turned out to be Admiral James Watkins, Chief of Naval Operations. Late in 1982 McFarlane and Watkins consulted informally. The product...
...capital of Damascus, an additional cause for speculation emerged as President Assad, who is known to be ailing, abruptly shuffled his entire 37-member Cabinet. Reagan Administration experts interpreted the move as no more than a restatement of Assad's domestic authority. Overseeing the rearrangement of the political chessboard in Lebanon could prove to be a greater test of the Syrian leader's mettle...
...another part of the Middle East chessboard, the Administration was forging ahead with its $220 million plan to equip two Jordanian army brigades as a "mobile strike force," despite Israeli and congressional complaints. Indeed, last week it was disclosed that U.S. Special Forces have been secretly training the strike force since 1981. One motive for the military largesse is to lure Jordan into the Middle East peace process...
...life" and the dispatch with his revolver of a fleeing Spaniard was notable because the Spaniard doubled over "neatly as a jack-rabbit." It was Roosevelt, of course, who bragged as President he "took the isthmus" for the Panama Canal as if it were a pawn on a chessboard...
...Europe becoming "decoupled" from that of the U.S. Imagining future crises, they feared that the Soviets might be able to use their by now vast strategic power to hold America's central forces in check while they advanced bishops and knights against weaker NATO pieces on the European chessboard...