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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Before Jakes could fashion a response, events exploded. On Friday, Nov. 17, Prague riot police cracked down on student demonstrators. With his authority rapidly crumbling, Jakes launched a last-minute bid to crush the uprising. Advised by Czechoslovakia's military that it would take no part in a violent action...
Through some eight hours of back-room combat, Strougal and his allies gradually broke down the resistance of Jakes holdouts, including trade-union representatives, while wooing the bloc from the Slovak republic, which was trying to boost its own influence. In exchange, the reformist camp had to make three concessions...
The question arises because, beneath the level of day-to-day politicking, conservatives are a heterogeneous lot. We conservatives mock liberals for playing coalition politics with the federal treasury. But our own coalition, although we don't glue it together with tax dollars, is as diverse as theirs.
Foreign policy will be the most obvious point of conservative contention in a post-Communist world. How long will we be in favor of maintaining garrisons in West Germany, South Korea and points between once the garrisons on the other side become unthreatening? Irving Kristol and Tom Bethell have been...
Related to the issue of national strength is the issue of international purpose. How active is our friendship for liberty supposed to be? HUD Secretary Jack Kemp sometimes gives the impression that if he were ever to become President, he would show up with megaphone and pompons wherever in the...