Word: sonnenfeldt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...book, Moynihan settles some scores with the man who more or less dumped him. While professing to admire Kissinger's energy, ambition and daring, Moynihan portrays him as a Machiavellian who never says what he means. He claims that Kissinger's former aide, Helmut Sonnenfeldt, once told him: "Henry does not lie because it is in his interest. He lies because it is in his nature." (Denying he made such a remark, Sonnenfeldt says that it "sounds so much like a Moynihan aphorism...
...possible and helps direct its course. Nonetheless, Castro has reasons of his own for the involvement. To achieve his goal of becoming a hero and leader of the Third World, Castro has returned to his unsuccessful romantic gambit of the '60s: exporting revolution. Says Foreign Affairs Expert Helmut Sonnenfeldt of Johns Hopkins University: "Castro has a sense of mission in Africa. Perhaps it's a sublimation of his inability to do anything in the Western Hemisphere...
Shortly before the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, Hyland recalls, "I concluded the Soviets would not put long-range missiles into Cuba." That was one of his rare mistakes. In 1969 Kissinger Aide Helmut Sonnenfeldt recruited Hyland for the newly upgraded National Security Council, where Hyland worked primarily on arms control. "SALT succeeded better and more quickly than any of us expected," says Hyland. Nixon and Brezhnev signed a SALT I treaty as the capstone of their first summit in 1972. Kissinger celebrated his 49th birthday in a chandeliered Kremlin conference room, where he was presented a cake in which...
Bitten by Potomac fever, many are trying to stay in Washington. John Marsh, Ford's White House Counsellor, and ex-Transportation Secretary William Coleman will practice law in the capital. Ending a 25-year career in the Foreign Service, Kremlinologist Helmut Sonnenfeldt will teach at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies...
...Helmut Sonnenfeldt, who is Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's chief aide, candidly declared at a press briefing that the amount of U.S. aid could not be determined so long as Italy's political situation remained "complicated." By that, he obviously meant until the role of the Communists in the nation's political life was clearer. Treasury Secretary Simon bluntly told reporters that foreign loans would "require necessary belt-tightening by the Italians." He added: "Otherwise, it would mean throwing the money out the window." Even so, Simon suggested, Italy might be allowed a "super-tranche "(meaning...