Word: foreign
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Dukakis, spending the weekend in Boston, accused several of the vice president's closest aides of using the White House as a "back door for foreign lobbyists" and declared that "in a Dukakis White House, the staff will pledge allegiance to only one flag--Old Glory...
...East Germans. But grant that outside Eastern Europe, in the Third World, the Soviets are indeed falling back. Why is that happening? Conventional wisdom has it that Gorbachev needs to rebuild his economy and restructure his society. He cannot do that while expending energy, treasure and occasional blood in foreign adventures. Internal retrenchment requires external calm. He needs a respite: a stable international arena and good relations with the U.S. Hence the cold war, like other old thinking, must...
...Which one factor best predicts the locus of a Soviet imperial withdrawal? The answer is not a colony's proximity to the Soviet Union, nor its ideological purity, nor the amount of Soviet investment. The single factor that best predicts a Soviet retreat is the strength and consistency of foreign support for the anti-Soviet resistance. American aid to the Afghan resistance has been massive, and the policy has ( enjoyed universal support at home. The Soviets are retreating. In Cambodia and Angola, American support for the guerrillas has been less intense but still generally bipartisan. Moreover, China and South Africa...
...goal of Gorbachev's foreign policy is not to end the cold war and certainly not to lose it, but to continue the struggle with the subtlety and finesse that befits the modern man he is. He is cutting his losses not because he is a sudden convert to friendship and harmony and coexistence, not because he has lost the nationalist or ideological faith that underlies Soviet realpolitik, but because he knows that what the times demand is discrimination. And in an age of triage, that means concentrating on supreme geopolitical objectives and making sacrifices at the periphery...
...Even before the Viet Nam War consumed Lyndon Johnson, his dark rantings sometimes shocked the White House press corps. The first serious criticism of his conduct of foreign policy came in 1965, when he sent 20,000 troops into the Dominican Republic to quell domestic violence. Stung, Johnson summoned a small group of reporters to an off-the-record lunch that began at 1:30 p.m. and did not end until 5:30. The four hours were taken up by the President's pacing, raving, justifying his action. When it was over, the numbed newsmen hurried to a nearby...