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The leak came at an awkward moment for the Reagan Administration, which had been embroiled in a dispute with Congress over funding of the controversial MX missile. Barely a week before, during the annual meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Brussels, Secretary of State George Shultz had got a reaffirmation...
Meanwhile, organizers of the West European peace movement already talk of major protests across the Continent in the months leading up to the first missile deployment. Last week demonstrators were once again out in force in West Germany and Denmark. In Britain, 30,000 women joined hands to form a...
Protestant and Catholic mission schools were responsible for training many leaders of the 38 new nations on the continent that have gained their independence since 1956. For missionaries in what is now Zimbabwe, the civil war that ended in 1979 brought death and harassment from both sides.
Nevertheless the Kremlin has every intention, if possible, of neutralizing Western Europe and driving the American military presence from the Continent. Kennan is too sanguine about the extent to which Soviet power has been-and might be again-an effective instrument of intimidation. But he is quite right that strident...
The Soviet presence in Cuba signifies the end of the Monroe Doctrine: our continent has become, as in the 16th and 17th centuries, one of the theaters where the great powers struggle for supremacy. Facing this new situation, American leaders have attempted to design a new Latin American policy; they...