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...Israeli circle of steel swung shut around Beirut. Caught in the ancient city, the forces of the Palestine Liberation Organization braced for the final assault. But far more than the P.L.O.'s fate hung in the balance. Israel's blitz had thoroughly scrambled the pieces of the Middle East puzzle, posing enormous risks and offering unexpected opportunities to work for peace in that embattled and strategically vital corner of the world. If the P.L.O. were neutralized and the Syrians persuaded to depart the country, there would be a chance that a strong, stable Lebanese government could be shaped from...
Those circumstances included growing U.S. matériel support for Britain. Alexander Haig had promised that support when the U.S. abandoned a month-long mediating effort and swung behind Britain, on the principle that unprovoked Argentine aggression could not be condoned. In the early 3 stages of the Falklands crisis, Washington's support for London consisted largely of providing some intelligence information and fuel supplies for the British armada at Ascension Island, the closest British staging area to the Falklands. That help has now been extended to cover a broad range of war goods, such as Sidewinder missiles, which the British...
This is all part of a long-standing and fundamentally warped view of China upheld in many American quarters. Public opinion and perceptions of the country have long swung from one extreme to the other, rarely stopping to look at the reality of the situation...
...early part of this century. American reformers thought they could remake China along Western lines and in the process create millions of new, untapped customers for American exports. Such unlimited hopes for China were dashed with the Communist takeover in 1949, and the pendulum of American opinion soon swung back the other way. McCarthy-era fears of "yellow hordes" hell-bent on expansion dominated the American imagination for over twenty years and grossly distorted our foreign policy in Asia. This attitude changed, however, in the 70's, with Nixon's visit to Peking. Today, the glowing reports of Communist progress...
Accordingly, almost because the fighting had worsened, the emphasis swung back to negotiation. Said a key British politician: "We realized that only the swiftest diplomatic action could recapture the international support we have been losing." The British looked first to Haig, who in turn found a mediator in Peruvian President Fernando Belaunde Terry. The use of Belaúnde as an intermediary seemed to have several advantages. Peru is a Latin American country with traditionally friendly ties to Argentina. When the threat of war first emerged, the Peruvian Congress voted to send military supplies to Argentina. Belaunde, however...