Word: regional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sees Brzezinski as the principal villain in a plot to set up an anti-Soviet alliance involving China, Japan and NATO. Brzezinski rejects that view: "A China that is increasingly modern, increasingly capable of dealing with its large number of people, increasingly a factor in stability both in its region and in the world as a whole-a China that is strong and secure-that is a China we would like to see. We do not see cooperation among China, the U.S., Western Europe and Japan as a hostile design against the Soviets. In different ways and on different issues...
...missed deadline was especially unfortunate because a peace pact would have brought a welcome measure of stability to the Middle East at a time when the troubles in Iran threaten to plunge the entire region into turmoil. With the Shah's crown slipping and Sadat's peace initiative stalling, the moderate Arab camp is becoming increasingly vulnerable to attacks from radicals. A defeat of the Middle East's moderates would be a monumental setback for Western interests...
...meetings with the region's leaders and opinion makers, McGovern mostly listened. But when Rhodesia's Prime Minister, Ian Smith, asked McGovern what he would do to solve Rhodesia's problems, McGovern had a succinct answer: "Resign." Yet at a dinner party in Johannesburg, he startled his South African hosts by indicating that Smith's government in Rhodesia, if it continues to move toward an "all parties" conference of local leaders and carries through with a promised one-man, one-vote national election next spring with "credible" international observers, could expect the U.S. Senate to repeal the economic embargo imposed...
...likely to be changed than the minimum wage. Davis-Bacon forces contractors working on federally aided construction projects to pay workers at the "prevailing" local wage. But, in administering the act, Labor Department officials often seek guidance only from local union chiefs, who quote the highest wage in the region. The White House is considering advising the Labor Department to become more objective and include some nonunion wages in its calculations...
...women is not in any way analagous to the campaign of terror conducted by the South African government. Women in this nation are not systematically tortured, beaten, shot, nor deprived of the right to trial, vote, work, hold public office, marry out of their race, or live in the region of their choice...