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Jimmy Carter's second term disappears without a trace, and the Shah of Iran is no longer mentioned as a steadfast ally of the U.S. Egypt has a sharply different role: now it is assumed not to be a reliable Soviet client state but, in alliance with Saudi Arabia, a force that extinguishes Libyan extremism, helps to impose moderation on the Israelis and thus stabilizes the Middle East. Otherwise, our next spasm of global bloodshed remains much as imagined four years ago in The Third World War: August 1985 by retired British General Sir John Hackett...
...Vadis? The question is superfluous. Where Raphael Soyer is going has never been in doubt. His self-portraits have been emblematic of both his personal detachment from his subjects and the lonely course he has undeviatingly pursued in an era that was long dominated by abstract art. How steadfast he has remained is demonstrated by the show of 17 paintings, "Soyer Since 1960," currently at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C., together with a 146-piece exhibit of engravings and lithographs entitled "Sixty-Five Years of Printmaking." Judging from the paintings, Soyer, who is 82, has spent the past...
Polemicists and commentators of the right obviously think their ideas are sounder or more steadfast than Reagan's, but it was he who carried 44 states...
...with the blundering "no" vote by our U.N. Ambassador on the Falklands cease-fire resolution [June 14]. True, communications can be a problem, but let's not disguise the issue. President Reagan should remind Secretary of State Haig and Ambassador Kirkpatrick of their duties: Mr. Haig to remain steadfast to the decision made by his boss; Mrs. Kirkpatrick to use her political savvy to convey our policy...
President Reagan had just completed his carefully prepared speech assuring the British Parliament of steadfast U.S. support in the Falklands crisis. Then, as his advisers in both Washington and London scrambled to formulate a response to the sudden Israeli invasion of Lebanon, distressing news arrived from another quarter. Speaking before a conference of the conservative Heritage Foundation in New York City, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Jeane Kirkpatrick had just delivered a scathing indictment of the U.S.'s conduct of foreign affairs. The former Georgetown University government professor assailed U.S. policymakers for their "persistent ineptitude in international relations...