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Preoccupied of late with the problems of Europe and the Middle East, the Reagan Administration has taken little time to ponder the state of its relationships in Asia. Now with frictions increasing, the Administration is squarely facing its differences with the two principal powers of the East, Japan and China. Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone paid a three-day visit to Washington last week, and late this week U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz leaves on a twelve-day trip to China, Japan and South Korea. Shultz's mission: to try to overcome some of the problems caused partly...
...told him he could not be reinstated until he obtained a letter certifying that he was not employed elsewhere. They also asked him to respond to government accusations of irregularities in Solidarity's finances. As police moved into the side streets around the shipyard, Walesa went home to ponder his next move. Said he: "Work is necessary for my health. When I worked, I was vigorous. Now I am tired...
Scheer's book leaves the false impression that never before have senior officials sought to develop a "nuclear-war-fighting capability." Since the dawn of the atomic age, and particularly since the mid-1960s, American strategists and political leaders have had to ponder an inescapable dilemma: unless the U.S. has a credible answer to the question of what it would do if deterrence fails, deterrence itself is not credible...
During Rhodesia's long, bloody civil war, Prime Minister Ian Smith was a staunch defender of a white Rhodesia and imposed draconian measures against black opponents. Now that Rhodesia has become Zimbabwe and blacks govern in the capital of Harare, once Salisbury, Smith, 63, has had reason to ponder some of his past actions: the same emergency powers that he invoked to defend white minority rule are being used against...
...then, the mixed signals? Apparently to please some right-wing supporters in the U.S. who were outraged by Hinton's directness, while placating Congress, which must ponder in January whether El Salvador has made progress on human rights and social reforms...