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...thus earning for America the hatred of freedom-loving people in those countries and elsewhere. Why should we fan anti-Soviet paranoia by implying that only they commit "brazen and brutal" aggression, as in Afghanistan. In recent years the U.S. has intervened militarily in the Dominican Republic and in Viet Nam to impose governments favorable to us. We do not need a renewed imperialist image but a people-loving image...
...Soviets claim cnly to have "access" to bases in Viet Nam. The installations there, they insist, are still very much in Vietnamese hands. Not so, say U.S. experts. Aerial photography has discovered that the Soviets are building and operating a support pier to tend the nuclear-powered submarines that frequently call at Cam Ranh Bay. In the past few months, communications intercepts have picked up voices speaking native Russian from the control tower at Danang's military airfield, also U.S.-built. Says Vice Admiral Sylvester Foley, a deputy chief of naval operations in Washington: "In Viet Nam, the Soviets...
...more firepower and have more experienced crews. Because the Seventh Fleet must do double duty, however, patrolling the troubled waters of the Indian Ocean as well as the Pacific, U.S. ships and crews are spending 15% more time at sea than they did even during the height of the Viet Nam War. That statistic means that both men and machines are being overworked...
...adviser to the late President Park Chung Hee, says, "The U.S. is sending the right signals for a change." Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew and his Deputy Prime Minister Sinnathamby Rajaratnam are nothing short of ecstatic about the Reagan Administration. "For the first time since the Viet Nam War," says Rajaratnam, "the Americans are taking up the challenge...
...more time on the job." The "anti-linkage" argument is that trade cannot be turned on and off because of a shift in foreign policy. If the U.S. becomes known as an "unreliable supplier," countries will take their business elsewhere. Adds the official: "What would have happened during Viet Nam if we had threatened to cut off trade with Canada unless they returned our draft evaders...