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...were professing private optimism that Haig could work out something to avert or at least delay an armed clash. But the President confined his own comments to asserting limply that "we are friends of both sides in this." Reagan was trapped between the U.S. reliance on Britain as its staunchest supporter and his strategy of wooing Latin American states that take a strong anti-Communist line. In addition, his prestige suffered when he could not persuade the Argentines to call off their invasion of the Falklands...
...crackdown on dissent. The twelve civilians in his 17-member Cabinet were drafted into the army with the rank of major, a move that made them subject to military discipline and curbed their ability to speak out in public. Most important, Doe forced a showdown with Weh Syen, his staunchest critic in the P.R.C., who had publicly lashed out at Doe's decision to close the Libyan embassy when it renamed itself a "people's bureau" without Liberian authorization, and to expel nine of the 15 Soviet diplomats stationed in Monrovia on suspicion of spying...
...cause fighting again and again until Israel and the Palestinians come to terms. The most alarming aspect of the hostilities was the way the Israelis had plunged ahead with the fighting, heedlessly bombing targets in densely populated areas in Beirut. Throughout the Western world, some of Israel's staunchest friends and supporters -in European governments, in the U.S. Congress, and even within the American Jewish community-criticized Israel's role in the latest round of fighting. The essential questions were posed by Charles Percy, Republican chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee: "At what point does [Israel...
Born into a noble landowning family in Kurow, he rose to the top ranks of a proletarian dictatorship. Forcibly deported to the Soviet Union after Stalin and Hitler partitioned his homeland in 1939, he later became one of Moscow's staunchest advocates, and according to some accounts took a Soviet wife. Alternately called a moderate and a hard-liner by Western observers, he seems to be above all a survivor. To many, that is precisely what Poland needs at this hour...
Surprisingly, Donovan's nomination seemed to please leaders in business and labor, as well as the unions' staunchest enemy, the National Right to Work Committee, which seeks to eliminate labor contracts that require union membership as a condition of employment. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Teamsters Union had lobbied hard for another candidate for the job, former National Labor Relations Board Chairman Betty Southard Murphy, but leaders of both decided that Donovan was acceptable. A New Jersey union negotiator, who has observed Donovan's smooth dealings over the years with the Teamsters and other unions...