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...quarters nowadays, the name of the man who sailed the ocean blue in 1492 is a downright dirty word. Russell Means, the Native American activist, says the explorer "makes Hitler look like a juvenile delinquent." In a new revisionist biography, The Conquest of Paradise (Knopf; $24.95), author and environmentalist Kirkpatrick Sale portrays Cristobal Colon (to name Columbus correctly) as a grasping fortune hunter, a mediocre sailor and an incompetent governor of Spain's New World colonies, whose legacy to the Indians he "discovered" was rapine, servitude and death...
Directed by Hendel Butoy and Mike Gabriel; Screenplay by Jim Cox, Karey Kirkpatrick, Byron Simpson and Joe Ranft...
Like most other Americans, conservatives are trying to puzzle out their country's role in a world they never expected to live in. Asked what U.S. interests are still worth fighting for, former United Nations Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick replies, "I don't think we know yet. All our strategic thinking has been based on cold war presumptions." Buchanan has called for a withdrawal of all American forces from Europe, Japan and the South Korean frontline on the ground that the countries concerned are capable of defending themselves. "The U.S. should review the commitments and tripwires it has all around...
Reagan Administration conservatives argued that any move against Doe might lead him to seize the American installations. And this was the heyday of Jeane Kirkpatrick's theory that traditional dictatorships of the Third World were more amenable to democratization than totalitarian regimes of the left. Washington endorsed Doe's election. "To withdraw support for Liberia's economic development," explained Chester Crocker, then Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, "would sacrifice the tentative steps taken toward representative government...
...value of personal diplomacy, wants to cement a bond with Gorbachev that he thinks will enhance relations between the two countries. He has sought advice from experts he has long trusted, such as Zbigniew Brzezinski and Richard Nixon, and from some about whom he has misgivings, like Jeane Kirkpatrick and Henry Kissinger. Bush hopes not only to impress Gorbachev with his understanding of Soviet problems but also to argue cogently about solutions. "It's one on one, and at stake is the world," said a senior Administration official. "He's a little nervous about it, and I think that...