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...assure access to raw materials. All these suggest to the American people that we need to modify our approach. So do the unchallenged seizure of American citizens, the murder of American diplomats and officials, kidnapings ... Soviet interventions around the world are an extension of the Brezhnev Doctrine outside the sphere of Soviet hegemony. We will tolerate such interventions in the future only at great risk to world peace...
...Mexico see things very differently. Reagan believes there will be more stability in Central America if you give more arms to right-wing regimes. This is what you believed in Viet Nam. Mexico is also interested in stability since Central America is on our border and is a sphere of influence in Mexico. But Mexico believes that stability can only be reached if colonial structures are broken--either by reformist or revolutionary means...
...proposals for expanding NATO's role. I do think that it is time to see whether NATO should extend its sphere of influence. You can see what's happening: the balance of deterrence-or the balance of terror if you like-between the Soviet Union and the U.S. and Europe is holding the line across Europe. But you are getting troubles almost girdling the world below the NATO belt. Viet Nam and Cambodia, Iran and Iraq, Ethiopia, Somalia and Angola, Central America and the Caribbean. There are times when your front line may be way beyond NATO...
...than in the good of the community. The prevalent attitude constitutes not so much racism as a disregard for minority issues. As long as the majority of students and faculty here is unconcerned with race relations in general and Third World students' needs in particular, little progress in either sphere seems possible...
...Iranians did not respond, we should have punished them." The counterarguments to that are obvious: the use of force might have resulted in the death of the hostages, it might well have led to a superpower confrontation with the Soviet Union, it might have pushed Iran into the Soviet sphere and-most troublesome of all-the U.S. probably could not have brought enough sustained military force to bear in the region to get the job done...