Word: viewpoints
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...difficult, even impossible, to discuss the situation in EI Salvador without expressing some sort of political viewpoint. Didion makes her own position clear, sometimes explicitly, but usually implicitly. Her unflattering portraits of rightist leaders like Robertod' Aubisson, and her constant comparisons of the Salvadoran reality she perceives with the White House's roster view demonstrate her opposition to current U.S. policy. And she mocks the notion that true progress has been made on the human rights front Indeed, she finds a language common to Washington and the Salvadoran Right that has replaced the word "change" with the word "symbol...
Though sympathetic to the business viewpoint, the Commerce Department's Olmer contends that too many businessmen react to the issue with "hyperbole in the extreme." He contends that it should not be too difficult to "both control trade and protect trade." Indeed, he points out, the stakes could be high. "I can remember some people claiming that rock-bit drilling technology was of no conceivable military use to the Soviets," he says. "Yet we now know that technology has been used by the Russians to develop armor-piercing shells. I sure wouldn't want...
...detente may well be clever policy from a purely strategic viewpoint. And by opening new markets for the West, trade with the Soviets brings with it new jobs as well. Most fundamentally, the greater the interdependence between East and West, the less likely it becomes that one side will act aggressively toward the other. In the nuclear age, the importance of this last point needs no further explanation...
...both the troop-withdrawal talks and the West Bank and Gaza Strip. "Sharon was the most serious obstacle to everything this government has been attempting to do," said a Government expert on Middle East affairs. "He had his own agenda, his own foreign policy." From Washington's viewpoint, it would also be best if Begin did not call elections in the foreseeable future because an interim government would probably only mark time, and thus precious months for negotiation would be lost. If, as is widely expected, Begin then won the election handily, he would be emboldened further to resist...
...more car bombing. The decision is baffling. Oh, one can argue that here was Black Jack De Lorean going against the tide again, betting other people's money and his life on the American rich getting richer and flocking to their very own indigenous Mercedes. But from the viewpoint of business horse sense, of which De Lorean is said to have had plenty, it only looks as if the man was deliberately trying to fail. When the company is about to fold, the hard-nose founder with two master's degrees decides to deal dope in order...