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...will be virtually impossible to resurrect détente. In the meantime, one task for America is to correct any dangerous gaps that have developed in the Soviet-American military relationship. Another task is to face the Soviets with political firmness and sophistication. That means eventually resuming carrot-and-stick diplomacy???with an effective stick, to be sure, but also with the restoration of those carrots that the Soviets complain have been thrown away. Only thus can the superpowers reverse the vicious cycle of retribution and recrimination that is driving them toward more and worse confrontations. The suspense 18 years...
...slowly creeping doubt is that we may be contemplating the beginning of the end of diplomacy???not as an art, which we will always need, but as an institution...
Considering the increased peril that their lives are in, diplomats hardly enjoy hearing that their embassies and their duties are not as important as they once were. But a growing number of critics believe that many of the traditional forms and norms of diplomacy???and the role of the ambassador?are already not only out of date but possibly obsolescent. Italy's Ducci goes so far as to raise the possibility of abolishing permanent missions and replacing them with special roving legates, not unlike those of the 16th century. "An exchange of embassies between friendly countries is at worst superfluous...
...success of his Moscow trip is particularly crucial for the continuation of his grand vision of American policy, for the maintenance of the accomplishments he has both achieved and has still in the making. So swiftly and dramatically has the Secretary of State worked radical changes in U.S. diplomacy???detente with Moscow, friendship with Peking, progress toward a settlement in the Middle East?that he has acquired something of the mystique of a magician, pulling doves of peace out of a hat for a fascinated circle of world watchers...
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