Word: retreated
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Given Mr. Carter's past foreign policy performance, the Soviets might just wish to accept his challenge in the Persian Gulf region [Feb. 4]. In that event, his options are essentially limited to the early use of tactical nuclear weapons or a humiliating strategic retreat...
...CORE, Carter's neglect of the problems of America's cities translates into an unwillingness to fight poverty or to use the presidency as a force to better the position of poor people and minority groups in American society. The current crisis of America's cities highlights a retreat from the Great Society. Today inner-city poverty entraps millions of Americans--not just blacks. It suffocates them with poor housing, poor schooling and few jobs. And as cities across the United States gasp for new life, Jimmy Carter blows them only...
...inhibiting the realization of such rights, we can expect to invite the antipathy of the peoples there. Any attempt to prop up governments against their peoples is only a stop-gap measure, as Iran bears witness, and obversely, as Afghanistan is also likely to demonstrate at some point. The retreat into Cold War logic, which views indigenous national struggles as indicative of "communist influence," only leads to further alienation of peoples, whose rights are trampled in our headlong attempts at "containment"--a process which eventually creates the instability against which we sought initially to defend. Instead, we must adopt...
...presidential retreat, with 10 advisers but his wife, Carter practically rewrote the entire speech. On Saturday he inserted draft registration to give the address more bite...
...dollar diplomacy. After a stumbling start when he supported a "benign neglect" policy that permitted the American currency to depreciate rapidly in value, Solomon switched strategy in November 1978 to become a strong dollar defender. During the past year he has tried to negotiate the dollar's organized retreat from its role as the world's basic reserve currency by strengthening the powers and reserve assets of the International Monetary Fund. Says he: "None of us are completely sovereign in our domestic economic policies because we are so severely impacted from events abroad." Solomon chose to leave...