Word: westing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviet troops, in would come a non-Communist prime minister -- and the response from Washington was the sound of one hand clapping. There were schoolmarmish homilies about the need to "test" Gorbachev's slogan of new political thinking and complaints about what he had not done for the West lately...
Foreign policy will be the most obvious point of conservative contention in a post-Communist world. How long will we be in favor of maintaining garrisons in West Germany, South Korea and points between once the garrisons on the other side become unthreatening? Irving Kristol and Tom Bethell have been urging for years that the U.S. wind down NATO. The tradition of American noninterventionism is a long one (we like pedigrees for our prejudices). America should not "go abroad in search of monsters to destroy," as John Quincy Adams put it. "She is the well-wisher to the freedom...
...Casbah (pop. 22,000) lies in the heart of Nablus, the largest Arab city in the West Bank. After two years of revolt, the ancient and impoverished community has won distinction as the most dangerous turf in the occupied territories. The dense, mazelike architecture gives the Palestinians a home- court advantage, enabling the young shabab (activists) to vanish down secret passageways or disappear over rooftops. Nervous soldiers respond with trigger-happy brutality. The consequences: at least 23 residents have been killed by Israeli troops, and more than 1,000 wounded. Internecine bloodshed has claimed an additional 18 Arabs accused...
...Eastern Europe left Moscow to make a virtue of necessity, giving its blessing to an erosion of Communist power that it could do little to reverse in any case. Meanwhile, the U.S. is in no better position to impose its will on its robust NATO allies, especially a West Germany that has become the engine of change on the Continent, pouring the deutsche mark into Eastern Europe the way the dollar once flowed to the Western nations under the Marshall Plan. All through the summit the German question hung in the air, although the two leaders agreed to keep their...
Finally, Larew's assumption that Israeli democracy is eroding has no support. If he wants to say that the treatment of West Bank Palestinians is "undemocratic," then I think he would get little argument from any side; the West Bank is under military occupation--a consequence of Jordan's unsuccessful surprise attack during the Six Day War--and as a result does not even pretend to live under the same rules as the Israeli democracy. Many right-wing Israelis would indeed like to rectify this situation by annexing the territories and including the Palestinians in the state, a solution...