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...preparation for this uphill, two-front campaign to sell Star Wars, the Administration has closed ranks behind a four-sentence, 98-word distillation of its philosophy. Known as the "strategic concept," the statement was drafted during the weeks leading up to the Shultz-Gromyko meeting in January. The principal author was Paul Nitze, the Secretary of State's closest adviser on arms control...
...Glemp's flock was unhappy over his stands, the regime decidedly was not. The government was delighted to see the Cardinal on the hot seat for a change, fighting a two-front battle against disgruntled Catholics as well as the state. Addressing a party conference, Jaruzelski said that Poles need not choose between loyalty to the state and to the church, but he did concede "an obvious contradiction between our philosophy and systems of religious faith." He blamed foreign centers-presumably the Western press-for abusing "church politics for their own purposes." Government Spokesman Jerzy Urban gave foreign journalists...
...February 1983, Burt had been confirmed in his new position as Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs, and he took command as the principal State Department official overseeing the Geneva talks. That meant waging a two-front battle: against Nitze's advocacy of greater concessions and Perle's championing of the zero option. It also meant accommodating pressure that was building up from across the Atlantic...
...innocent and unprepared the U.S. was. "Do we plan for a two-front war, or what?" Wedemeyer asked Gerow. "You decide," the general replied. "What are our aims and objectives?" Wedemeyer wanted to know. "You write them out," Gerow told...
...spotlighted one of the Reagan Administration's chief dilemmas in El Salvador. Says Democratic Congressman Peter Kostmayer of Pennsylvania, a self-styled "realistic pessimist" who supports the option of negotiating with the guerrillas but recognizes that they must also lay down their arms: "It's really a two-front war. One front is in Washington, one in El Salvador. The Administration is losing on both fronts...