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...military moves overseas are still constrained by a residue of deep national wariness. "The American public will love a good bash if U.S. interests are directly involved," says a Cabinet member from a previous Republican Administration. "But the U.S. public is not going to tolerate our being the policeman of the world...
...press conference last week, the President was asked if he considers it "the American role to play policeman around the world," a role seldom disputed by Americans before Viet Nam. "No," Reagan said, "it is not." But a moment later, with explanatory references to potential cutoffs of sea lanes and of strategic minerals and oil, he did sound something like an international cop. "[The U.S. role] is to recognize that the threats can be widespread, the threats to our security...
Barring any tragic incidents, Reagan's muscular foreign policy is likely to remain both flexed and relatively flexible. If Reagan has not quite donned the complete uniform of the world's policeman (the costume Presidents have worn for most of the 20th century) he has been swinging the nightstick as though he means it. -By Kurt Andersen. Reported by Laurence I. Barrett and Gregory H. Wierzynski/ Washington
...airpower, the limited U.S. and French assistance failed to turn the tide. In a press conference after the fall of Faya-Largeau, Reagan indicated that the Administration would not be sending further help for the time being. He noted that the U.S. could not play the role of "world policeman," and urged France to take the lead in Chad. "It is not our primary sphere of influence," the President said. "It is that of France...
...first-floor room. As a wounded Atasay slid down the residence staircase to safety through the billowing smoke, security policemen, accompanied by the distraught charge, dashed into the damaged building. On the ground floor, they found the fatally burned Cahide Mihçioĝlu; upstairs, a Portuguese policeman lay dead not far from the charred corpses of the four assailants...