Word: east-west
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...last week's veto indicated that the Reagan Administration has other ideas. It apparently sees no gain in trying to prod Pretoria's apartheid regime, especially by public condemnation, into a change. It also prefers to view developments in southern Africa as part of an overall East-West confrontation rather than a black-white struggle. The Administration's policy for southern Africa was outlined only days before the U.N. veto by Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Chester Crocker. Citing South Africa's mineral wealth and strategic importance, and the West's stake...
...indication to date that the new U.S. strategy is to bolster South Africa's confidence by assuring Pretoria of its political and economic security in the face of regional turmoil. Said Crocker: "The worldwide significance of the region derives from its potential to become a cockpit of mounting East-West tensions...
...were in Viet Nam, Iran and Nicaragua." A tilt toward South Africa, he adds, is "shortsighted, naive and part of [the Administration's] ideology and paranoia toward Communism. The South Africans' hope is to turn attention away from self-determination and racial domination to an East-West arena...
European neutralists, who want to dissociate their governments from becoming too involved in the superpower struggle, also fear that the weapon will make their soil the eventual battleground in an East-West confrontation...
...odds with his party's left wing, which opposes the government's support for NATO'S decision to place a new generation of medium-range missiles on West German soil to counter the Soviet buildup of its mobile SS-20 missiles. In a period of growing East-West tension, Brandt is nostalgically remembered by the growing number of West German pacifists as the Nobel Peace Prize-winning architect of Ostpolitik, the agreement with the Soviet bloc that enabled tens of thousands of families split between West and East Germany to be reunited...