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1956: The French and British are alienated when President Dwight Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles denounce, and thus doom, their attack on Egypt after President Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalizes the Suez Canal.
Buckley's latest adventure, Who's on First, is used to skewer such unarmed opponents as Dwight Eisenhower, the State Department, the Congress and the U.N. But it also weaves a story only slightly less convoluted than its prose style. The year is 1956, when the cold war...
But the anger that Americans originally focused on Iran, while hardly forgotten, is mainly being directed against a new target: the Soviet Union. In New York, a man in a ski mask left a bomb at Aeroflot's Manhattan office Sunday night, Jan. 13; the explosion stunned three French...
But Afghanistan, unlike Iran and Nicaragua, was never really "ours" to lose. The British raj stopped at the Afghan border, and so did the post-World War II Pax Americana. In 1955 John Foster Dulles helped set up what became known as the Central Treaty Organization (CENTO) as part of...
Carter was also eager to de-emphasize the Soviet-American relationship, which he felt had preoccupied postwar American diplomacy. His advisers encouraged him. Cyrus Vance is, by nature and by his legal training, a problem solver and a conciliator, a troubleshooter rather than a theoretician. His approach to huge, complex...