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West Europeans believe that an Iranscam-style scandal is unlikely in their countries for institutional and psychological reasons. In Britain, for example, there is no government equivalent of the National Security Council, only a benign advisory appendage to 10 Downing Street known as the Cabinet Office. Insists Field Marshal Lord Bramall, a former Chief of the General Staff: "The idea of a bunch of military cowboys running their own foreign policy out of the Cabinet Office is too absurd to contemplate." On the Continent, a widespread feeling exists that if anything like Iranscam were uncovered, it would not have...
...overflow crowd packed the Quincy House Junior Common Room to listen to the remembrances of University Marshal Richard M. Hunt, Quincy resident Susan E. Ordway '86-'87, former Senior Tutor Eliot A. Cohen '77, former Co-Master Mimi Aloian '52 and Elliot Forbes, Peabody Professor of Music Emeritus...
Reflecting the importance that Moscow attaches to its relations with India, Gorbachev was accompanied by his wife Raisa and a high-level delegation that included Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze, Central Committee Secretary Anatoli Dobrynin and Military Chief of Staff Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev. The Soviet leader was welcomed as a "crusader for peace" by Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and cheered by schoolchildren and villagers who lined the route from the airport into New Delhi. The next day Gorbachev laid a wreath at the memorial to Mahatma Gandhi, the leader of India's independence, and planted a magnolia tree nearby. While...
...military has also criticized. Among these are Labor Minister Augusto Sanchez and Local Government Minister Aquilino Pimentel. Aquino has appeared to be reluctant to make changes, partly out of friendship and partly because she does not have many suitable candidates to offer as replacements. In addition, she needs to marshal support for the campaign to ratify the new constitution. Enrile, who may emerge as the leading opposition figure and the heir to much of Ferdinand Marcos' dormant support, is opposed to ratification and reportedly plans to campaign against...
...chance of a breakthrough dimmed the moment the Soviet team arrived in Vienna. Shevardnadze was not accompanied by the full delegation that had negotiated deep into the night in Iceland. Most conspicuously absent: Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev, Soviet Chief of Staff and leader of the Reykjavik arms- control team. The first meeting between Shultz and Shevardnadze lasted three hours. From the beginning, the Soviets made it clear that they were not interested in the U.S. goal of defining some areas of agreement, perhaps including the reduction of intermediate-range nuclear weapons, or disagreement. Instead, Soviet negotiators hammered away at just...