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...were bent on humiliating and punishing Germany and saddled the Weimar regime with ruinous reparation payments that drained off badly needed resources. The winners of the cold war are warmly encouraging nascent democracy in what used to be the U.S.S.R. and are considering pumping in money and goods to prop...
...eyesight is failing, he wears a hearing aid, and he broke his hip in a fall last year -- he was determined to keep his seat as long as the likely replacement was another conservative nominee. With cantankerous tongue in cheek, Marshall would tell his clerks, "If I die, prop me up and keep on voting...
Coincidental or not, the timing symbolized a foreign policy conundrum. Eager to prop up Gorbachev, the Bush Administration previously had pretty much ignored Yeltsin. Now, the U.S. and other Western powers can no longer put off cultivating contacts with him and other rising leaders of a rapidly decentralizing Soviet Union. Yet they must try to do so without alienating Gorbachev, who still determines Soviet foreign policy. The question of how far to go is already causing some dissent in the West. British diplomats last week were privately but sharply critical of the White House invitation to Yeltsin; one called...
Like the vast majority of Americans, I believe the U.S. should prop up Israel because it's our moral duty to stick up for threatened democracies. Israel's Jewishness is immaterial to us. To Dersh, it isn't, so he needs to spend an inordinate amount of mental energy convincing himself (and others) that there is no contradiction at all between supporting Israel the democracy and Israel the Jewish state...
...Secretary of State James Baker and Soviet Foreign Minister Alexander Bessmertnykh are expected to be on hand to congratulate Dos Santos and Savimbi -- as well they might. Since Angola won independence from Portugal in 1975, $ Moscow has spent as much as $1 billion a year to prop up the regime, while the U.S. has contributed up to $60 million annually to the rebels...