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...other contexts, conservative American Presidents have argued that maintaining diplomatic relations need not constitute an endorsement of the powers that be or the political system of a country. The Reagan Administration justified its intensive diplomacy toward racist South Africa as "constructive engagement." Last year George Bush sent two high-level envoys to toast a Chinese leadership that had just slaughtered thousands of its citizens. The President explained that preserving U.S. leverage over future developments in that largest of Third World communist nations meant avoiding the temptation to "isolate" its government. Bush was properly criticized not for the principle...
...called Senators to a White House breakfast and followed up with personal notes and phone calls. He publicly promised that "no student will be forced to leave the U.S. against his will." (One Chinese student, however, sharply reminded a Senator that Bush broke an earlier promise: "He promised no high-level contacts with China" but within a month secretly dispatched National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft to Beijing...
...very frustrated," said Gong. "I don't believe Mr. Bush. How can we believe someone who has already cheated and sent high-level officials to China when he said he would not? We don't want our destiny put in someone else's hands...
...balding, bespectacled German-born physicist named Klaus Fuchs walked into London's War Office and confessed to being a spy. For seven years, from 1942 to 1949, Fuchs had systematically funneled high-level secrets about U.S. and British nuclear-weapons research to the U.S.S.R., including plans for the yet unfinished hydrogen bomb...
...week that mercenaries from Libya, Iran and the Palestine Liberation Organization had been taken into the Securitate and were conducting urban guerrilla raids around the country. At the Foreign Ministry, Bogdan said he had received "denials to our satisfaction from these Arab governments." But in Washington, Silviu Turcu, a high-level Rumanian intelligence official who defected to the U.S. a year ago, said up to 500 Arabs, mostly Palestinians, could have been involved in the fighting...