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They were only five words, and rather bland ones at that. But they were among the most self-damaging the President of the U.S. could have uttered. "I was not fully informed," Ronald Reagan told the reporters he summoned to a special briefing last Tuesday. In an attempt to defend himself from suspicion of complicity in the biggest scandal to threaten Washington since Watergate, he thus highlighted the most fundamental flaw in his stewardship of the presidency, one that could undermine his effectiveness for the remaining two years of his term...
Kinnock hopes to reconcile a hostile ReaganAdministration to the Labor Party's recentlyannounced nuclear disarmament program, said DillonProfessor of International Affairs Joseph S. Nye.The Administration has been skeptical of NATO'sability to defend Europe without nuclear weapons...
British audiences will be watching Americanreaction to tonight's speech very closely because,according to an article in The Economist, someBritons fear that Kinnock's disarmament policymight prompt the U.S. to withdraw from itscommitment to defend England...
Secretary of State George Shultz went on the road last week to defend American policy toward Nicaragua. During a speech in Guatemala before the 16th General Assembly of the Organization of American States, he offered little hope for a negotiated settlement. "Foreign intervention in the form of alien ideologies and foreign cadres -- from Cuba, the Soviet Union, East Germany, North Korea, Viet Nam and Libya -- is at this very moment promoting instability and violence in Central America," said Shultz. "The only road to peace and stability is to eliminate that alien intervention." He asserted that "there would be a great...
When a questioner asked whether the president had been forced on the defensive, Reagan bristled and said, "I don't feel I have anything to defend about...