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...dispute between the allies that erupted publicly last week left officials in every allied capital worried about the future of the alliance. Mirrored in the series of events were the weaknesses?as well as some of the strengths???of the ties binding the free world's major powers. Says Helmut Sonnenfeldt, a former aide of Henry Kissinger and now a scholar at Washington's Brookings Institution: "The alliance is going through a period of adjustment out of which new practices and perceptions will grow. There is a potential for new strength but the danger of discord and weakness is greater...
...Washington clearly had to consider more direct and tough measures, although one Administration aide admitted that "we don't have any trump card that will force the Soviets out of Afghanistan." Carter realized that this crisis differed radically from that in Iran. If the hostage situation played to his strengths???patience, caution and carefully calibrated movements?the Soviet invasion called for something else. For guidance, Carter dusted off a 150-page analysis that had been prepared in 1968 by State Department experts on the possible U.S. reactions to the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. Reports TIME Correspondent Johanna McGeary: "The President...
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