Word: reaganism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...promotion to general in 1974 gave him access to a cornucopia of intelligence beyond his immediate mission: for example, a shopping list, several inches thick, of military technologies sought by Soviet spies in the West. "It was breathtaking," recalls Richard Perle, an Assistant Secretary of Defense for President Reagan. "We found there were 5,000 separate Soviet programs that were utilizing Western technology to build up their military capabilities." Polyakov's list helped Perle persuade Reagan to press for tighter controls on Western sales of military technology...
...about the size it was in the Carter Administration," Woolsey says. The man who ran the agency back then, however, doesn't see that as a problem. "I don't think we were shorthanded in my day,' says Stansfield Turner, CIA chief under President Carter. "I think ((President)) Reagan and ((his CIA chief William)) Casey bloated...
...there are some experts who think the CIA is beyond repair. "The CIA should be shut down because its banner has too many cold war stains," says William Odom, a retired three-star Army general who ran the National Security Agency, the government's electronic eavesdropping arm, during the Reagan Administration. The Pentagon and State Department could perform most of its tasks, he says, and a new, truly secret unit could handle spy missions...
...situation in Haiti is sad but predictable. Like many other Carribean basin countries, Haiti's economy has not changed in a decade and a half; Haitian farmers grow thousands of acres of sugarcane for which there is no market in either Europe or the United States. Moreover, when Reagan's Carribean Basin Initiative failed to stimulate growth and create new markets in the mid-1980s, Haiti's faltering economy crumbled. With the collapse, poverty, disease and hunger wracked the population, and misery became the easiest thing to find in the country...
WASHINGTON -- PRESIDENT CLINTON asked aides at a National Security Council meeting on Haiti to prepare a comparison between a possible U.S. invasion of Haiti and Reagan's 1983 invasion of Grenada. Clinton wanted a study of forces needed, likely casualties -- and rationales used. After the meeting one official asked, half joking, "Are there any Americans in medical school in Haiti?" Another answered, "No, but we've found two American dentists there...