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...between the allies that erupted publicly last week left officials in every allied capital worried about the future of the alliance. Mirrored in the series of events were the weaknesses?as well as some of the strengths?of the ties binding the free world's major powers. Says Helmut Sonnenfeldt, a former aide of Henry Kissinger and now a scholar at Washington's Brookings Institution: "The alliance is going through a period of adjustment out of which new practices and perceptions will grow. There is a potential for new strength but the danger of discord and weakness is greater...
...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...