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McFarlane, a former Marine officer, objected on principle to the fact that Nitze had "wandered off the reservation." He drafted a memorandum for Clark to send to Shultz, reprimanding Nitze for exceeding his instructions and asking Shultz to rein him in. McFarlane also questioned the military wisdom of giving up the Pershing II, which would leave the U.S. with only cruise missiles to counter the Soviets' ballistic...
...dramatizing the Administration's commitment to deep reductions and its claim that the Soviet Union had moved ahead of the U.S. in the arms race and must now pay a penalty in the arms-control negotiations by giving up large numbers of existing forces. Perle wrote a memorandum to Weinberger arguing that a deal of the sort the State Department was advocating, which would leave the Soviets with a significant number of SS-20s, would be militarily unacceptable to the U.S. An unequivocal, all-or-nothing zero option, he believed, would "put the Soviets on the defensive...
...agricultural products and are likewise interested in preventing reform in the area. More important, since World War II members of the social and military upper classes have been willing to carry out Washington's top priority: the prevention and eradication of Communism in the hemisphere. LaFeber quotes a 1950 memorandum by George Kennan on U.S. policy in Central America...
...that Sir Paul Scoon, the Grenadian Governor General who represents Queen Elizabeth II, is a U.S. stooge, and any Grenadian government that might be set up with his help would be a puppet of Washington. Thus Cuban Vice Foreign Minister Ricardo Alarcdn last week sneered that "some U.S. Army memorandum" probably gave Scoon the only authority he had, and added that the next Grenadian government would be "supported by the bayonets of the Yankees." Alarcon also simultaneously portrayed the U.S. as a menacing villain and a bumbling giant. Said he: "Now millions of people who did not believe before that...
...turned out, Speakes simply had not been told the truth by Administration officials. Afterward he complained bitterly to senior White House aides in an interoffice memorandum. If he had known the facts, says Speakes, he could have kept the secret without telling an outright lie. "I could say, I'm sorry, I can't answer that question,' " he explains. "Or, 'I'll check on that.' " Says ABC Paris Bureau Chief Pierre Salinger, a former press secretary who was kept similarly in the dark about the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 by President Kennedy...