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Today the Security Council exists mostly as a place to let off steam. Former Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick has called it a "Turkish bath." Laments Brian Urquhart, Under Secretary-General for Special Political Affairs: "There are moments when I feel that only an invasion from outer space will reintroduce into the Security Council that unanimity and spirit which the founders of the charter were talking about...
...nonaligned nations ganged up on the U.S. and its surrogates, most notably Israel, while the Soviet Union sat back and cheered. The Israel bashing reached grotesque heights in 1975 when the General Assembly passed a resolution equating Zionism with racism. The U.S., in the meantime, became "essentially impotent," as Kirkpatrick put it, "without influence, heavily outvoted and isolated...
Articles in the first issue cover topics ranging from terrorism to the paralyzing effect Congress has on the President's ability to forge foreign policy. Jeane Kirkpatrick, who serves on the journal's advisory board, contributes a speech arguing the morality of U.S. aid to anti-Communist rebels. In an essay, Kristol says that support is growing in the U.S. for a muscular foreign policy grounded in the belief that the conflict between the U.S. and the Soviet Union is not one of clashing national interests, as some liberals say, but of ideologies. Kristol predicts that the U.S. will...
Maryland Democrats outnumber Republicans 3 to 1, and to many observers, Mathias' retirement means that his seat could be won by a Democrat, perhaps Governor Harry Hughes. One possibility as a G.O.P. contender: former U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick...
...Kennedy School speech, Fahrenkopf referred to the opportunity the Reagan administration has given a select few Republican women--Sandra Day O'Connor, Jeane Kirkpatrick, and Elizabeth Dole--to serve in public office. What he failed to mention was that his "party of the future" would be infringing on the rights of millions of women by turning the calendar back on the abortion ruling...