Word: pledgees
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Haig was convinced that American sanctions would not then stop the building of the pipeline or cancel the European commitment to it. He thought he could satisfy Reagan's desire to be tough on the Soviets by getting the Europeans to pledge that they would limit government-subsidized loans...
In his meeting with Reagan, and in a later private talk with Haig, Begin likewise would not budge on anything. At one point, the White House put out word that the Prime Minister had pledged to refrain from a final assault on Beirut. Haig was furious because he regarded the...
Reagan's rhetoric may have cost the U.S. propaganda points at the U.N. Delegates to the disarmament conference gave the President only a cool round of handclapping after his speech. Said Reagan to aides: "That was a hard audience." In contrast, the delegates had burst into applause two days...
American officials view the pledge as phony ("unverifiable and unenforceable" is the way one State Department spokesman put it) and even potentially dangerous. The U.S. and its NATO allies have long relied on tactical nuclear weapons to counter the numerical superiority of the ground forces that the Soviet Union and...
Public opinion polls have for years measured a powerful desire on the part of the American people for a strong leader in the White House, a feeling that helped bring Reagan to office. Yet the most recent Yankelovich survey found half of those questioned disagreed with the statement that "Reagan...