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...attitude a few years ago. Vice President George Bush, on a visit to Manila in 1981, gushed effusively to Marcos that "we love your adherence to democratic principles and to the democratic process." In 1982 the Philippine leader was welcomed with open arms at the White House. What stood uppermost in U.S. calculations at that time was the fact that Marcos controlled something that the U.S. badly needs: access to Subic Bay Naval Base and Clark Air Base, two of the most important American military facilities in the Pacific. Says a State Department official: "The bottom line always...
...calm again. "My Viet Nam policy is the three Ds --determination, discussion, discretion. I don't want to drop one more bomb than I need to in Viet Nam. Caution is uppermost in my mind...
Andropov also began the task of bringing new faces into the uppermost reaches of the bureaucracy, replacing 32 of the 157 regional party secretaries, often with younger men. That was only a small tremor in a shift that is still moving through the bureaucracy. According to a senior British diplomat, the largest turnover of local Communist officials in recent memory took place during biennial party committee elections between November 1983 and January 1984. Nonetheless, the pace of change remains slow, and most top officials in the Soviet bureaucracy are, like most Politburo members, in their...
That will mainly be determined on Capitol Hill, where the success or failure of the President's economic initiatives will be decided. Uppermost on Congress's agenda are two related yet distinct issues: the Treasury's proposed tax-simplification plan and the budgetary decisions that will have to be made to reduce the projected $210 billion deficit for fiscal...
Political considerations were, in fact, uppermost in the minds of White House strategists and Reagan's Senate allies last week as they grappled with Meese's deteriorating situation. The relatively routine confirmation was derailed when the Washington Post disclosed that the nominee had failed to report a $15,000 interest-free loan from a California friend, Edwin...