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...They don't like his role in Central America, his proconsular, interventionist, pro-contra role as Ambassador in Honduras. They don't like his Viet Nam background and his national security, intelligence-community background. Nonetheless, it is possible that he'll become the first U.S. ambassador in many years to establish channels of communication with all sectors of the political spectrum, in which case he might even become a good ambassador...
Whatever reservations Moscow may have about the Polish election, the possibility of Soviet intervention seems extremely remote. Eight years ago, in the heyday of Solidarity's first incarnation, Leonid Brezhnev forced Jaruzelski to break the union. But Gorbachev has long since laid the interventionist Brezhnev Doctrine to rest, repeatedly promising the East * European regimes "mutual respect" and "non-interference in each other's internal affairs." Moreover, Gorbachev considers the reform-minded Jaruzelski an important ally in promoting what he calls "new thinking" throughout the Soviet bloc. Finally, the Soviet leader seems to regard the economic and political experiments in Poland...
Closing out the debate with the House galleriesjammed with spectators, House Speaker Jim Wright(D-Tex.), said the United States should letCentral America run its own affairs, instead ofmaintaining interventionist policies...
...senior economist on the staff of the Council of Economic Advisers in the early 1960s, Solow helped shape the interventionist policies that dominated the Kennedy and Johnson years. He has never lost his taste for mixing it up in the public economic debate. An engaging speaker, he is also one of the few economists who can write good English. His popular essays and book reviews leaven economic analysis with a dry, cutting wit. "Only someone with a sense of humor could survive reading this book," he began a review of George Gilder's The Entrepreneur as Hero...
...meantime, the guerrillas boasted of the attack over the clandestine Radio Venceremos, describing it as the beginning of a new campaign for the "conquest of peace, bread, work and liberty." More Americans will be killed, they declared, if the Reagan Administration's "interventionist policy" continues. The guerrillas claimed to have killed or wounded 600 Salvadorans, including the brigade's commander, Colonel Gilberto Rubio. In truth, the number of dead and wounded was probably no more than 130, and Rubio had escaped with a slight injury to his hand...