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Here was the Watergate tragedy encapsuled in a brief telephone conversation. We were heading into what could have become the gravest foreign policy crisis of the Nixon presidency?because it involved a direct confrontation of the superpowers?with a President overwhelmed by his difficulties and with a Congress that had just, in the War Powers Act, restricted authority to use military force...
...gravest threat to the country's continued stability is Zimbabwe's worsening relationship with South Africa, which in 1980 provided some 27% of its imports, bought 17.5% of its exports and now handles fully 75% of its trade abroad. Mugabe, who broke diplomatic relations with the apartheid regime in September 1980, some five months after he assumed office, has strongly criticized South Africa for refusing to relinquish its hold on Namibia. In retaliation, South Africa has terminated its preferential trade agreement with Zimbabwe, withdrawn its loan of 24 locomotives and expelled thousands of Zimbabwean workers employed in South...
When Polish Communist Party Secretary Stanislaw Kania took the floor last week to open an emergency Central Committee plenum in Warsaw, he faced one of the gravest challenges to confront the leader of a Soviet client state. Three days earlier, the Polish party had received its latest warning from a Soviet Central Committee increasingly disturbed over the course of Poland's "socialist renewal." The near ultimatum to the Poles came in the form of a toughly worded letter that, for the first time, criticized by name both Kania and Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski. The Soviet threat, similar to one sent...
...Soviet Ideologue Mikhail Suslov had flown to Warsaw to deliver what was presumed to be a stiff warning to hold the line against further democratization. Shortly after that, a sizzling article published by TASS, the official Soviet news agency, charged unnamed Polish party reformists with "revisionism"-one of the gravest epithets in the Communist lexicon and one that was invoked against the reform-minded Czechoslovak leadership in 1968 just before Warsaw Pact tanks rolled into Prague...
...gravest threats to civil rights is "the renewed attempt to restrict the power and jurisdiction of the federal courts," Kennedy said...