Word: outflanks
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From the capitals of Western Europe to Central America's jungles, Nicaragua's Sandinista government was on the move last week. Its main objective: to outflank the Reagan Administration and its allies by force of diplomacy and of arms. On the diplomatic front, the Sandinistas were trying -- less than successfully, as it turned out -- to open a rift between the U.S. and Western Europe over the trade embargo that Washington imposed on Nicaragua earlier this month. At the same time, Nicaraguan troops were foraying along the frontier with Honduras in a continuing effort to contain anti-Sandinista contra rebels ensconced...
...AMOURS HAS found only one strategy to counter the good vibrations favoring his opponent--outflank him on the right. His stump speeches have emphasized votes on which he, and not Humphrey, voted with Reagan. Need we even note that the word "Mondale" has temporarily slipped D'Amours' memory? Yes, folks, these are bad times for the Democrats...
...week, for example, Reagan's top aides indicated their displeasure with Martin Feldstein, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, through a leak by "a senior White House official" to Knight-Ridder newspaper reporters. The purpose of leaks is often manipulative: to pretest public reaction to a plan, outflank a colleague or sabotage a rival policy proposal. There is an added appeal: journalists are so accustomed to treating the closed-door side of Washington as the "real" one that they tend to report unattributed information with less skepticism than they bring to public pronouncements...
British Prime Minister Thatcher and Helmut Kohl, who had replaced Schmidt in October 1982 as West German Chancellor, were Reagan's staunchest allies; then-support for deployment was rock solid. But they both faced elections, and they needed a new, more flexible-looking U.S. proposal to help outflank their political opponents and quiet their domestic constituencies. Kohl's Foreign Minister, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, and Thatcher both asked the U.S. to adopt an "interim solution," in which the Soviets would be allowed to keep a reduced force of SS-20s, while the U.S. would scale back its own deployment...
...with the pacification of Poland and its "peace offensive" in Western Europe. Those campaigns are harder to wage if international tensions are on the rise. Reagan has a budget deficit to trim, an unruly Congress to assuage and an election to contest. A summit with Andropov would help him outflank the Democrats on the war-and-peace issue. But the question still nags: What business can be transacted at a summit? Both leaderships have disclaimed any interest at all in a getting-to-know-you session. And they are right to do so. The combination of Reagan's extraordinary...