Word: cubans
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...intelligence, for his grasp of the issues, and not least for his keen and conscientious attention to the importance of individuals in foreign policy negotiation. Deadly Gambits will clearly enter the history books on a par with such works as Robert I. Kennedy '40's account of the Cuban Missile Crisis and George F. Kennan's writings on containment. But this dual account of the Intermediate Nuclear Force (INF) talks and Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) suffers critically from an almost exclusive focus on, and a slant against, the current Administration's conduct of nuclear arms negotiations. The Soviets...
...follows the same pattern as in Part One: balanced treatment of the historical dynamics behind each actor's position, followed by a much longer slap at American policy. We are told that the Cuban Missile Crisiy "probably contributed to the Soviets' decision to embark on the sustained accumulation of every category of weaponry: conventional and nuclear, battle-field range and globe-spanning, tanks, aircraft, surface ships, submarines, and most of all, rockets." We are told that SALT I and II tended to codify the trends in each side's weapon inventory--for the Soviets' development of heavy, land-based, multiple...
Washington and Managua are probably too myopic to realize it. In Reaganworld, the only threatsto Central America during the President's tenure have been the Cuban and Soviet proxies ready to eat up our allies; these fears have been played up only because of the Administration's single-minded devotion to force and bluster as the lynchpins of its policy in the region. The Republicans brag that under their government "not one square inch" of territory has been lost to the Commies, but if they pursue their current course, they will more likely end up squandering their rapidly diminishing influence...
...democracy among the nations of Central America, have been going on since January 1983. The U.S. has grave reservations about the treaty as it stands. Among other flaws, say U.S. diplomats, the document would require the U.S. to halt military aid to El Salvador immediately, without stopping Soviet and Cuban assistance to Nicaragua. The Contadora nations, on the other hand, evidently feel that the U.S. is stalling. "We cannot clearly understand the opposition of the U.S. to the Contadora draft treaty," Mexican Foreign Minister Bernardo Sepulveda Amor told TIME editors last week. "I don't think...
...drew a connection between civil rights and crime in our neighborhoods. In addition, the Administration's desire to enforce second class citizen status through reduced minimum wages on those "teenage black...kids" that George mentioned is touching. The point is can you imagine Ronald Regan trying to handle the Cuban missile crisis? The point...