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Roger Rosenblatt's essay "The Wars of Assassination" [Sept. 8] pinpointed the reason assassins and assassin countries escape punishment for their dastardly crimes: lack of outrage and resolve on the world, national and individual levels. The slain Ali Akbar Tabatabai was a cultured, pro-Western and democratic man-a human being of excellence and compassion...
Born to a prosperous farming family in Tikrit, a small town 100 miles northwest of Baghdad, Saddam as a student eagerly joined the nationalist ferment against Iraq's pro-Western monarchy. In 1959, under sentence of death in absentia for his involvement in an assassination attempt against President Abdul Karim Kassem, a general who had seized power the year before, Saddam fled to Syria and Egypt. In Cairo he studied law and joined the Baath Party, a revolutionary group of Arab nationalists. He returned to Iraq in 1963, and by the time the Baathists staged their 1968 coup under...
Aron's position in Paris-a pro-Western, tradition-minded professor at the Sorbonne and former columnist for the conservative Le Figaro-is significant. This changed view of the U.S. is not the crude anti-Americanism of the postwar years, when walls were defaced with scrawled outcries of YANKEE GO HOME! and leftist crowds repeatedly rioted against the all-powerful U.S. It is instead the increasingly widespread belief, even among many of America's traditional friends, that U.S. strength has declined so much that Washington can no longer be relied upon as the leader of the Western alliance...
...liberalizing policies." The problem, as his aides explained later, is that the U.S. has precious few bargaining chips with which to influence developments in South Korea. Obviously Washington cannot threaten to withdraw its 39,000 troops or threaten economic sanctions against Seoul, since such actions would only undermine a pro-Western country that the U.S. once fought dearly to protect...
Previous Administrations might not have paid adequate attention to the human rights issue, but the simplistic proclamation of human rights has too often undermined pro-Western governments. They are replaced not by democratic alternatives but by totalitarian, radical, anti-American, anti-Western ones. This seems to be happening in Nicaragua. Each of these changes brings a sort of rock slide. We now have crises in El Salvador, possibly in Honduras, and sooner or later this will have its effect in Mexico. So I agree with Brzezinski that we need a coherent policy for the Third World, but we have been...