Word: zbigniew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...interests; disputes are referred to a senior interdepartmental group headed by Clark. The most important impact of arrangement is that it insulates Haig's department from the tendency of the National Security Council staff to become a kind of rival State Department, as it did under Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski...
...German Bundesbank, expressed concern over the disparate rates of inflation throughout Europe and the West, calling for "effective measures for coordinating economic policy." Guido Carli, former governor of the Bank of Italy, pleaded for new approaches to the problem of world raw materials shortages. The two principal American speakers, Zbigniew Brzezinski and John Connally, said little that was surprising, but still elicited warm applause. Brzezinski rehashed a speech that he had made two weeks earlier in Paris on the importance of confronting aggressive Soviet foreign policy around the world, while Connally lavishly praised his old friends...
...State Department, rather than the National Security Council, firmly in control of foreign policy. So far Reagan has not reacted, but National Security Adviser Richard Allen has offered no dissent. That is a restructuring of power that would never have been tolerated by Allen's predecessors, Zbigniew Brzezinski and Henry Kissinger-at least not by Kissinger until he moved from the Security Adviser job to become Secretary of State. Haig also bridled at OMB Director Stockman's public disclosure that he is seeking a very large cut in the foreign aid program. That, Haig made plain...
...Washington, where it was 1:50 p.m. when the jet cleared Iranian airspace, the State Department began informing the families that the hostages were free at last. Carter quickly got the word too, and his airborne party, including Zbigniew Brzezinski, Hamilton Jordan, Jody Powell, Jack Watson and Stuart Eizenstat, struggled with laughter and tears at the same time. Phil Wise rushed into the plane's press section to paraphrase a Martin Luther King Jr. line that applied aptly to both the Carter Administration officials and the hostages: "We're free, we're free; thank God almighty, we're free...
...early as October 1979, the Algerians were instrumental in setting up an inconclusive meeting between National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski and Iran's then Premier Mehdi Bazargan. After the hostages were seized by the militant Iranians, the Tehran government asked Algeria to represent its interests in Washington. Thus a certain logic was involved when Iran, at the urging of Yasser Arafat, head of the Palestine Liberation Organization, last November asked Algerian Foreign Minister Mohammed Ben Yahia to help arrange a hostage deal...