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...over why the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan last December. Hawkish observers-including National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski-have argued that the move could turn out to be Moscow's first big step toward the oil and warm waters of the Persian Gulf. Historian George Kennan and other defenders of détente say no, the Kremlin was acting defensively to shore up its southern border. Not surprisingly, the latter interpretation is endorsed in the Soviet Union. Also not surprisingly, an insistence on the defensive, legitimate and temporary nature of the Afghan operation echoed throughout interviews conducted by TIME Diplomatic...
IRVING KRISTOL, neoconservative writer: There's no question that Henry Kissinger elevated the discussion of American foreign policy. There aren't many individuals-George Kennan in his prime was one-who apply mind to foreign policy as against just opinion, and Kissinger is certainly...
Most of the "seven sisters" colleges have usually had big brothers at their helm. But when Elizabeth Kennan, a medieval scholar, is inaugurated as president of Mt. Holyoke on Oct. 7, all seven prestigious Eastern schools will be headed by women presidents for the first time in their history. "There was a certain feeling of elation among us that the colleges established 100 years ago to produce women leaders are at last led by women leaders," said Barbara Newell, president of Wellesley, when the seven met in Cambridge, Mass., to celebrate Radcliffe's centennial. Mary Patterson McPherson, the newly...
Huntington called on the U.S. "to develop a more stable and balanced policy towards the Soviet Union" which is both more "realistic and effective." He also noted the "polarization of American opinion" on the Soviet Union and disagreed with the positions of George Kennan and "extremists" like Walt Rostow and others on the Committee on the Present Danger...
...school for girls in 1837, she avoided the word college because the "benevolent gentlemen" whose support she needed might not approve. Mount Holyoke "seminary" eventually did become a college, and several gentlemen became its president. Now, after 41 years, Holyoke is again to be headed by a woman: Elizabeth Kennan, 39, an associate professor of history and director of medieval and Byzantine studies at Catholic University in Washington, D.C. A Holyoke alumna, Kennan believes that only in women's colleges can women develop the strength to deal with the "crosscutting responsibilities of family life." As a wife and mother...