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Critics point to Clark's ill-advised support for an embargo against West European suppliers of parts for the Soviets' natural gas pipeline. (NATO allies flouted the embargo, and, last fall, Reagan was obliged to drop it.) Clark took over the Administration's El Salvador policy, and the resulting harder line has produced a backlash in Congress. He has generally backed Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger's resistance to budget cuts, even when it was clear that Congress would insist on trims. Clark is getting much of the blame for the politically costly skirmishing over Kenneth Adelman...
...made the judgment early that he must keep his distance from the unpopular and defeated Carter. In a newspaper interview last month, Mondale made clear that he had differed with Carter on such controversial decisions as building the MX, selling arms to the Saudis and imposing the grain embargo on the Soviets. His candor caused Mondale to be accused of disloyalty. A few days later, at a Georgia rally where six candidates appeared-to Mondale's relief, Carter was traveling in the Middle East-Mondale was the only speaker who failed to mention Carter's name. The criticism...
...APPROXIMATELY a year before the war, the Reagan Administration, primarily in the person of United Nations Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick, had been vigorously courting Argentina. Kirkpatrick, hoping to gain practical support for the United States positions concerning Nicaragua and El Salvador, was laying the groundwork for lifting the arms embargo imposed by Jimmy Carter, and according to Argentine sources, had indicated that the U.S. would give any military excursion to the Falklands a sympathetic hearing. But the magnitude of the British response put the United States in the difficult position of deciding where its loyalties lay in the conflict--realizing that...
Such statements provide justification for increased aid and arms sales to the Guatemalan government. In January 1983, Reagan lifted an arms embargo--in effect since 1978--allowing the brutal Rios Montt regime to purchase $6.3 million in arms from...
...three-hour parliamentary debate in Cape Town, after which the government of Prime Minister P.W. Botha tried to prevent both its critics and the press from discussing the matter any further. Its grounds: all information concerning South African purchases of oil, which are in contravention of a world embargo designed to block such sales, is a state secret...