Word: foreign
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...background. But the fact that he had so recently served in a sensitive Pentagon job clearly increased the danger to Higgins once he fell into unfriendly hands. "He knew a great deal," says Weinberger. "He went with me to meetings on the progress of new weapons, meetings with foreign Ministers of Defense...
Since the 1970s, American foreign policy has been sharply constrained by its inability to react adequately to the terrorist actions used by radical Arab organizations--and nations--as a tool of diplomatic leverage. During the dark days of the Carter Administration, airplane hijackings and hostage-takings effectively paralyzed a president too pacifistic to protect his own citizens...
...need to speak softly on one hand, and carry a big stick on the other, are by no means mutually exclusive. America needs to distinguish between excessive intervention in the internal affairs of foreign nations and its legitimate right, some might say duty, to preserve the lives and interests of Americans abroad. The lives of American citizens, in addition to Carter-esque loss of face, are a terrible price to pay in order to court the good-will of factions showing precious little of it themselves...
...Foreign analysts continue to doubt that Doi and her Socialists will soon rule Japan. Says Richard Holbrooke, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs: "The chances of Doi's becoming Prime Minister are just tiny." The Japanese, however, know better than to tell Takako Doi what she can and cannot do. They remember the deputy mayor of Kobe...
...mere fact that the foreign ministers of some 20 countries, including the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., are gathered in Paris this week to try to end ten years of war in Cambodia constitutes something of a breakthrough. Only a few days before the conference opened, a parley among the four warring Cambodian factions broke down just hours after it began. The talks were resumed by the factions -- the country's Vietnamese-backed government, represented by Prime Minister Hun Sen, and a resistance coalition that includes two non-Communist groups under Prince Norodom Sihanouk andnationalist leader Son Sann, as well...