Word: soviet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long-range terms, the most worrisome prospect is the deterioration of U.S. influence in what National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski has called "the Arc of Crisis," a vast region of the Middle East and Asia Minor where instability invites Soviet adventurism. Saudi Arabia, in particular, has become increasingly skeptical of America's resolve to safeguard the Arc, and, according to some unconfirmed reports, has opened discreet diplomatic channels to Moscow. There is little chance that so virulent an anti-Communist state as Saudi Arabia would seriously consider any accommodation with the Soviets, but the very fact that...
...predict developments in areas vital to its national interest and to devise effective policies for dealing with them. While the situation in Iran deteriorated, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and his top aides were preoccupied with the Middle East peace talks and SALT negotiations with the Soviet Union. Filling the policy vacuum was Zbigniew Brzezinski, who was almost unopposed in his recommendation that the U.S. must support the Shah without reservation. Day-to-day operations, according to State Department sources, were left in the hands of low-level officials. Complained a knowledgeable observer last week: "There has been nobody...
...were focusing on several possible contenders, and Bitat was not among them. The leaders: Foreign Minister Abdelaziz Bouteflika, 41, an agile, Westernized diplomat; Colonel Ahmed Bencherif, 51, former commandant of the national gendarmerie and now Water Resources Minister, and Colonel Mohammed Salah Yahiaoui, 46, a devout Muslim and pro-Soviet politician who is currently running the F.L.N. Outside the council, the name most often mentioned is that of Colonel Benjedid Chadli, 52, military commander of the Oran region, who took over as "coordinator" of the armed forces during Boumedienne's long illness. Virtually no chance at all is given...
Baker said the visit comes "at a very important time" for the United States because of the continuing talks on SALT II, the Soviet news agency Tass reported yesterday. He said he was confident the Senate would ratify a treaty...
MOSCOW--Senate minority leader Howard H. Baker (R-Tenn.) and five other Republican senators arrived in the Soviet Union yesterday for a series of high-level meetings with Soviet officials on the strategic arms limitation talks and other issues...