Word: friendships
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Since then Clark has earned respect throughout the Administration as a quick study and an able manager. He also won the friendship of Alexander Haig, whose job he may well have saved during the Secretary of State's testy bouts with Allen and the White House staff. Even more valuable for his new role as mediator, Clark took no public positions on issues that tend to divide the Reagan team into factions of pragmatists and ideologues. Says one official who knows Clark well: "Like the President, he believes we live in a world with one adversary, the Soviets...
...Crusaders), had brought Iran to the brink of a civil war. Vinogradov told Mousavi that Iran would be ripe for a U.S.-backed counterrevolution. His deal: increased Soviet protection, presumably in the form of arms and technical advisers, in exchange for a formal five-to ten-year "friendship and mutual assistance treaty" between the U.S.S.R. and Iran. The Kremlin would stand ready to defend Iran against "foreign-led subversion...
...talks about the friendship treaty between Iran and the Soviet Union are reportedly continuing. The mullahs seem intent on drawing out negotiations in order to assure themselves of Soviet assistance without paying the political price of aligning the country with Moscow. But the Kremlin wants a signed deal before it will start to deliver...
...nightmare scenarios for World War III are more plausible than one in which the opening scene is a border conflict between the U.S.S.R. and China. The U.S. could all too easily be drawn in, now that it is forging an explicitly anti-Soviet "strategic friendship" with China and offering to sell the People's Republic lethal weaponry...
PERFECT BECAUSE Latin America really is strategically important. If we succeed, through prolonged and ultimately futile resistance, in driving the region into the arms of Moscow (see "Cuba, Revolution," "Vietnam, Civil War," and "Nicaragua, Rebellion"), we will have lost not only the moral battle but the potential friendship of an important neigh-boring area. Withdrawal of U.S. support will guarantee a popular victory; disinterested and genuine American support for the regime established in the wake of revolution will help assure not only that these nations develop democratically, but that they reject the obligation-laden entreaties of the Russians...