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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...resonant voice to foreign policy pronouncements. He drafted a 20-page memo for Reagan, urging changes that would put the State Department, rather than the National Security Council, firmly in control of foreign policy. So far Reagan has not reacted, but National Security Adviser Richard Allen has offered no dissent. That is a restructuring of power that would never have been tolerated by Allen's predecessors, Zbigniew Brzezinski and Henry Kissinger-at least not by Kissinger until he moved from the Security Adviser job to become Secretary of State. Haig also bridled at OMB Director Stockman's public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Change of Direction: Reagan Starts to Make His Aims Known | 2/9/1981 | See Source »

Earlier this week Reagan proved that he does not intend to probe the hypocrisy and danger of U.S. involvement in El Salvador. By firing Ambassador Robert White--ostensibly withdrawn from the country to Washington D.C. for "consultations"--Reagan demonstrated that he will not tolerate dissent on U.S. policy from an American official. Like his conservative advisor, U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick, Reagan believes it is wise to support "mildly" repressive regimes, and, perhaps, if you close an eye and both ears, El Salvador's junta--responsible for 10,000 political murders last year--is "mildly" repressive...

Author: By Suzanne R. Spring, | Title: In The Winter Of Our Dissent | 2/6/1981 | See Source »

...purely logistical terms, when the guerrillas finally bring down Duarte's regime, and undoubtedly they will, in some form or another, with the aid of the Soviets and Cuba, the United States will lose an ally in a "strategic" zone. And to the rest of the world, as the "dissent paper" itself warns, the United States will once again be left holding the bag--having aided the oppressors now powerless...

Author: By Suzanne R. Spring, | Title: In The Winter Of Our Dissent | 2/6/1981 | See Source »

...controversy surrounding the "Dissent Paper" has died down a bit. The El Salvador desk in the State Department only gets a few calls about it a day as the new administration snugly slips into its "Peace through Strength" diplomacy. "Peace Through Strength"--a slogan that sounds frighteningly like "Peace With Honor," Richard Nixon's favorite wartime catchphrase. And, indeed, it may soon be wartime again. Reagan escalates aid to Duarte's regime, the Soviets increase aid to the guerrillas. There is no point in wondering who started the process; it is only worth questioning when the spiral is going...

Author: By Suzanne R. Spring, | Title: In The Winter Of Our Dissent | 2/6/1981 | See Source »

...Communism. Later in the decade, these same millions looked back and wondered why they didn't understand what was happening in Vietnam. Some had lort sons and brothers and now were marching on Washington and getting arrested. Quietly--just as quietly as the government covered up the "El Salvador dissent Paper"--the government today floods El Salvador's junta with military aid. And quietly, in the very back pages of newspapers, millions of Americans can read that we're training troops in nearby countries, just as the document stated--or guessed. And in a decade, when millions march on Washington...

Author: By Suzanne R. Spring, | Title: In The Winter Of Our Dissent | 2/6/1981 | See Source »

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