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...station with a hostage family in the area got into the act, and the most touching or most mawkish family response made it to the networks. George Will complained about the "pornography of grief" in hostage-family coverage, and on a talk show he asked Secretary of State George Shultz whether "we are so paralyzed by 40 lives" that our foreign policy was jeopardized. Some word-processor warriors were quite ready to sacrifice the hostages in their eagerness for "bold" retaliatory action, usually unspecified. C.D. Jackson, who served on General Eisenhower's wartime staff, used to call such macho talk...
When Secretary Shultz on This Week with David Brinkley insisted that there was "no connection" between the hostages and the prisoners held by Israel and that "it's important for us not to allow a group of terrorists to create a connection by asserting it," he laid the grounds for Reagan to claim he had not rewarded terrorism when the swap later came off. If this course was politically advantageous to Reagan, it was also part of a set of tactical understandings that were crucial to freeing the hostages. The press finds such unacknowledged arrangements hard to accept. It created...
Another of Gorbachev's recent appointments, Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze, will travel to Washington in September to meet President Reagan. Before that, Shevardnadze will see Secretary of State George Shultz in Helsinki, on July 30. Shultz may ask for an explanation of the latest confrontation between Soviet and American military personnel in East Germany. On June 13, a U.S. Army vehicle was rammed by a Soviet truck near Potsdam. One U.S. officer was injured slightly...
...Cape of Good Hope and of South Africa as a producer of precious metals and an anti-Communist bastion. Last week's statements from Washington not only omitted all mention of such considerations, but were delivered in a tougher tone than in the past. Secretary of State George Shultz described apartheid as "an affront to everything we believe in" and viewed South Africa's present policies as doomed. "The only question to be determined," he said, "is how [the end] will come about." The U.S. believes the only solution is for black-white negotiations, said the Secretary. "It cannot...
...Shultz stressed, however, that the Administration was sticking to its constructive-engagement approach and its opposition to divestiture and sanctions, which it believes have rarely been effective in other situations. Said Shultz: "If you say the alternative is for the U.S. to remove itself, stop all investment, I don't see that that is taking you where you want to go. You reduce what influence and leverage you have, and you don't have any contact." Just in case the message was not heard clearly enough in Pretoria, White House Press Secretary Larry Speakes told a press briefing late...