Word: zbigniew
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...contrast with intellectually forceful predecessors like Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski, Clark does not operate a rump State Department in the White House basement. "I don't have my own agenda separate from the President's," says the soft-spoken aide. He has consolidated his authority by bringing a surface placidity and orderliness to the NSC office. Memos flow smoothly...
...week's end Polish television further reported that police in Warsaw and eight other cities had also seized at least 26 Solidarity supporters, together, with their radio transmitters and printing presses. Among the captives: Zbigniew Belz, one of the 107 elected members of Solidarity's National Commission. Polish authorities allegedly claim that Belz, having been in hiding since the declaration of martial law 16 months ago, had been helping to organize May Day protests around his native city of Gorzow Wielkopolski...
Muted versions of this idea were born before the Reagan Administration. Kissinger feared that détente, if oversold, might undercut support for defense. He oversold it nonetheless, but the result was more the undercutting of detente itself. Jimmy Carter's National Security Adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, noted in his journal in 1978 that he and Secretary of Defense Harold Brown "both worried that SALT will be used to generate such euphoria about American-Soviet relations that it will be difficult to face realistically either the Soviet military or the Soviet regional challenge...
Other Law School Forum speakers this year have included Zbigniew Brzezinski, former President Jimmy Carter's national security advisor and the 1980 independent presidential candidate John Anderson...
Savov is said to have told Mantarov that the KGB concluded in 1979 that Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Jimmy Carter's Polish-born National Security Adviser, had somehow engineered the election of Pope John Paul II the previous year. Brzezinski's supposed purpose: to use the Pope to inspire further unrest in Poland and eventually to wrench the country out of the Soviet orbit. Mantarov claims that he was told that as the troubles in Poland mounted, and as the Pontiff came to be identified with the budding Solidarity movement, Soviet authorities gave the command to "eliminate" the Pope...