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...Somoza in Nicaragua. Like most Third World countries, none of them were models of participative democracy. However, they were all serious about development; and in each of them there were people with whom I and our AID mission could work with a clear conscience in ways which might strengthen the prospects for democratic institutions while improving the living level of the poor. In like manner, HIID's list of clients includes such countries as Indonesia, Bolivia, Kenya, Pakistan and Tanzania. None should suffer under the illusion that these are democracies as we know democracy. One has only to read...
...dependence on foreign oil. He pointed out that nothing was done-or said-about Afghanistan until the Soviets actually invaded. He said it was Carter's appearance of weakness that encouraged Soviet aggression. Yet at the same time as he chided the President for his proposals to strengthen the U.S., Kennedy approvingly quoted Theodore Roosevelt: "Don't flourish your revolver and never draw unless you intend to shoot." Carter had made a "false draw" with his demands for withdrawal of the Soviet brigade in Cuba and then changed his mind, said Kennedy, and that move "may have invited...
...government." Despite hints that he might be tried for treason by continuing to speak out against official policy, Sakharov would not be silenced. In a written statement sent from his new home of exile in Gorky, he charged that the Kremlin had "launched a broad demagogic campaign aiming to strengthen its military superiority" in the world. The culmination of this dangerous Soviet policy, said Sakharov, was the "invasion of Afghanistan, where Soviet soldiers are waging merciless war" against the people of Afghanistan...
...Olympic torch, and all that it symbolizes, should not be exploited to make a political statement or to strengthen our foreign policy. Yet President Carter demands that we boycott the summer Games in Moscow not only for the symbolic significance of such a stand, but also to hurt the Soviet economy and wound their pride. By not participating in the Games, he hopes to make an international statement of our condemnation of their occupation of Afghanistan (and also of the way that they treat dissidents), yet it is doubtful this statement will have any effect on the USSR. When Vladimir...
...that permitted the American currency to depreciate rapidly in value, Solomon switched strategy in November 1978 to become a strong dollar defender. During the past year he has tried to negotiate the dollar's organized retreat from its role as the world's basic reserve currency by strengthening the powers and reserve assets of the International Monetary Fund. Says he: "None of us are completely sovereign in our domestic economic policies because we are so severely impacted from events abroad." Solomon chose to leave his Treasury job in part because of his growing exasperation with Treasury Secretary...