Word: interent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...frightening capacity of each superpower to destroy the other many times over, combined with genuine fear of a nuclear war that would leave little more than ashes and radiation where 350 million people now live. Says Mient-Jan Faber, 40, the lanky, jeans-clad leader of the Dutch Inter-Church Peace Council (I.K.V.), which serves as a model to anti-nuclear organizations elsewhere in Western Europe: "Arms control, the step-by-step approach, has not worked. Our overall goal?all nuclear weapons out of Europe?will be a long process, but it can begin here." Says Volkmar Deile, secretary...
...however, it is becoming increasingly clear that people might have listened to Haig a little more closely. Haig's desire to establish himself as primus inter pares of the Reagan administration's foreign policy transcended ego considerations. Instead he had touched a rotten nerve of this administration's foreign policy: there is a palpable and immediate need for a strong Secretary of State...
...Henry Luce III, President, Henry Luce Foundation Inc.; Robert H. Malott, Chairman, EMC Corp.; Gerald C. Meyers, Chairman, American Motors Corp.; John J. Nevin, Chairman, Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.; Frank Pace Jr., President, International Executive Service Corps; Donald S. Perkins, Chairman, Jewel Companies Inc.; Paul C. Sheeline, Chairman, Inter-Continental Hotels Corp.; Forrest N. Shumway, Chairman, Signal Companies Inc.; John G. Smale, President, Procter & Gamble Co.; Thomas J. Watson Jr., Chairman emeritus, International Business Machines Corp.; George Weissman, Chairman, Philip Morris Inc.; and L. Stanton Williams, Chairman, PPG Industries...
...Newstour changed some long-held preconceptions. Firestone's Nevin found himself surprised at "the diversity of the four Communist countries. I had thought of them as much more monolithic." Inter-Continental Hotels' Sheeline said, "We're always told that Arabs are all brothers, with one point of view. But they have totally different points of view on many issues." The participants came away deeply concerned about the difficulties the U.S. faces. John Beckett of Transamerica deplored the lack of a "decent export policy." Former Diplomat Sol Linowitz recommended that the U.S. "get its priorities about the Soviet...
Enter Mitterrand. In an effort to wean Oueddei away from Gaddafi, Mitterrand supported the proposal for an inter-African force, invited Oueddei to Paris, supplied his army with some small arms and repeated an earlier offer to help rebuild the Chadian army in a neighboring country, probably Cameroon. In early October, the French Development Minister, Jean-Pierre Cot, demanded the withdrawal of the Libyans from Chad by the end of the year. Oueddei, bolstered by the French, openly criticized the Libyan presence...