Word: paranoias
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Washington's game plan is simple: keep tensions with the Sandinistas high to increase their paranoia and hence their authoritarian impulses, and do nothing to help them develop more democratic institutions. The visa delays fits neatly into the latter half of the Administration's strategy...
...bureaucratized their revolution, had betrayed Marxism, were traitors to Communism ? revisionists! If the Soviets had succumbed to bureaucracy, might not the same thing happen in China? Thus, a growing suspicion that revisionism and class enemies might be infecting even his own party. On went Hu, describing the paranoia growing. Mao had disliked intellectuals ever since he had been a $30-a-month librarian in Peking in his youth. "The more knowledge you give the people," said Mao, "the more you hold back revolutionary thought." Or, "The more books people read, the more foolish they become." So Mao let loose...
...just another way of letting the Soviets off the hook one more time. The ludicrous implication of the majority view is that the United States, with all its militant posturing, is in some way to blame for this incident because it has not made sufficient efforts to assuage Soviet paranoia...
...abhorrent to Western democracies. Yet it should be apparent--given the many invasions of Russia throughout its history, the 20 million Soviet World War II casualties, and Moscow's fear of aggression from both the East and the West--that these acts result at least in part from Soviet paranoia. A consistent Western policy of economic exchange, decreased rhetoric and serious arms control negotiations based on compromise--as opposed to the present Administration's "all or nothing" approach--will serve to assuage Soviet fears and thus make tragedies like that of flight 007 less likely to occur...
Such precautions and even more extreme ones do not mean that U.S. businessmen are succumbing to a kind of mass paranoia. So far, no one is known to have tapped a rival's computer over long-distance telephone lines, like Milwaukee's schoolboy 414 Gang. But the fact is that many companies, especially those in highly competitive industries, are frequently the targets of espionage activities...