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...months before the embassy takeover, the documents indicate, U.S. officials in Tehran made a good-faith effort to mend relations. Yet there were attempts at old-fashioned spying. The papers purport to show that the CIA attempted to recruit Abolhassan Banisadr, then an adviser to Khomeini and later President of Iran, to be an informer in the summer of 1979. A CIA agent posing as an American businessman approached Banisadr in Tehran and offered to hire him as a business consultant for $5,000 a month, but the attempt failed...
Reagan duly signed the certification last Thursday. It is a two-page document with a six-page appendix claiming that "despite formidable obstacles," the Duarte government has made a "concerted, significant and good-faith effort to deal with the complex political, social and human rights problems it is confronting." The document made it clear that those problems were by no means solved. (As many as 1,000 people still disappear or are murdered each month in El Salvador by death squads of both the left and the right.) But the U.S. claimed that "progress is being made...
When the Carter Administration committed the U.S. to the TNF, it also pledged a "two-track" approach -good-faith negotiations with the Soviets on TNF limitations while we were preparing to deploy the weapons. Secretary Haig has now promised the beginning of such negotiations no later than Dec. 15. An important debate within the Reagan Administration, pitting very hardliners against the medium hardliners, has turned on whether the U.S. should try to get its allies to agree to the "threat assessment"-what NATO is up against, weapon by weapon, front by front-before working out the NATO negotiating position...
This refusal to face the bomb squarely might help explain why the attempts to control nuclear proliferation have been so ineffectual. On the one hand, the world has seen more than 30 major good-faith efforts at containing proliferation-a dogged series of pacts, treaties and conferences, extending from three months after Hiroshima through the establishment of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in 1957, the Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) in 1968, and the International Fuel Cycle Evaluation, the barely pronounceable INFCE, in 1977, that undertook the apparently futile task of dispersing the power without...
...views of America's allies are even clearer: they are adamant that the Reagan Administration pursue a "two track" policy of building up defenses while making a good-faith attempt to negotiate with the Soviets. A number of West European officials have politely but firmly told visitors from Washington that they consider the initial anti-Soviet thrust of Reagan foreign policy excessive and obsessive. Galled by that attitude from across the Atlantic, some second-echelon hard-liners in the Administration have gone so far as to hope for a Soviet invasion of Poland. It would, they believe, galvanize both...