Word: unilateralist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most important distinction between Dukakis and Bush is over the rules that should govern America's commitments abroad. Ever since Viet Nam, Democratic Party activists have increasingly been drawn toward neoisolationism, as expressed by George McGovern's exhortation "Come home, America," while Republican activists have tended toward a unilateralist policy, symbolized by Reagan's call for America to "stand tall." Dukakis takes a third approach: he calls himself a "multilateralist." In other words, he portrays himself as part of the once dominant bipartisan consensus that favored asserting American influence through alliances, treaty organizations, economic partnerships and the United Nations...
...Labor voters, believe that the party's unilateral disarmament policy would be dangerous for the country. Overall, the party was supported by only 24.5% of the electorate, just one point above the alltime low nearly two years ago. Undaunted, Ron Todd, the union delegate who had presented the unilateralist resolution, declared on TV: "I'd rather go down [in the next general election] than change the policy." It was that attitude that led the Daily Mirror, Labor's major supporter among Britain's big dailies, to observe that "only the Labor Party could still put money...
...desired, but no one with even a modicum of intelligence expects that we shall soon (or perhaps ever) be able to achieve it. Our best hope is negotiated reductions in the strengths of both sides--a bilateral approach that will maintain the balance in Europe, not the unilateralist, pie-in-the-sky dreaming of the idealistic but misguided Greens. Eric Stockel...
...President and his right-wing unilateralist foreign policy advisors make some cogent points. The Russians are short of currency and have been desperately selling gold and diamond reserves. The pipeline would annually provide an estimated $10 million in hard currency once the gas began flowing west. Much of that will be used to prop up repressive satellites like Cuba and Vietnam and to purchase military hardware for ventures such as the Afghanistan takeover. A pipeline, Reagan argues correctly, would not only send badly needed currency to Moscow, but would also increase Western European energy dependence on the Soviets. Plans call...
...movement these people represent, made up of an amalgam of professional groups, is nowhere near as vocal as the current wave of pacifism in Europe or as dogmatic as the unilateralist ban-the-bomb protests of the '50s. Said Hart: "If it grows into a unilateral thing, that would not be useful. We are talking here of responsible arms control." Nor were the seminars a replay of the rallies of the Viet Nam era. "During the 1960s we were concerned about our boys who were dying overseas," explained U.C.L.A. Philosophy Professor Don Kalish. "Now I'm concerned about...