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Presidential National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski argues that the human rights initiative has put the U.S. "back on the moral offensive" round the globe. It is, in fact, a characteristically American effort to achieve something most nations would consider quixotic-combining world power with moral principle. The human rights campaign, unveiled by Carter in his Inaugural Address, has also been the object of more passionate advocacy and more scornful criticism than any other single element of his foreign policy. Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev has denounced the human rights policy as interference in the internal affairs of other countries. A number...
Both extremes are represented within the Government. During the first months of the Carter presidency, the policy met considerable resistance from career foreign-service officers, who felt that the new emphasis on human rights jeopardized traditional friendships and interests. Other officials have had to get used to the fact that sometimes human rights must yield precedence to other more mundane or more pressing strategic goals. Says the NSC's Tuchman, who is the daughter of Historian Barbara Tuchman: "In foreign policy, there is always bound to be a point where one has to pursue conflicting interests. When that time...
...under Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention; it says that "the occupying power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies." Thereafter, on Oct. 2, the Begin government authorized the first of nine new settlements. The problem lies in the fact that the last four of these settlements were placed in army "camps" that had been created only a few weeks earlier-and obviously for the sole purpose of providing an excuse for a civilian settlement. At Karnei Shomron, a West Bank settlement into which civilians moved last week, the military...
...major difficulty, however, is the fact that the proposed settlement does not include representatives of the Patriotic Front, which has some 17,000 guerrillas in neighboring Mozambique and Zambia engaged in a war of attrition with the Smith government. As expected, Front Leaders Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe castigated the internal settlement plan and vowed to step up the fighting. "We are going to hit each other hard," Nkomo said ominously after the announcement last week. "We intend to finish [Smith...
...Crossroads. Sobrino, a Jesuit and professor at the Universidad José Simeón Cañas in El Salvador, says that Christians working for justice should realize that Jesus was mistaken in his social outlook because he expected the imminent appearance of the kingdom of God. In fact, he thinks that Jesus had to undergo a "conversion" in his views...