Word: zbigniew
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...stern lecture: with 85,000 Soviet occupation troops in Afghanistan and East-West relations already severely strained, there was a strong predisposition in Washington to attach the most sinister interpretation to anything that could be construed as Soviet intervention in the Iraq-Iran war. Presidential National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski went on television to caution: "We feel it is very important for the Soviet Union, as well as for us, to respect the principle of noninterference and not to become involved in this particular conflict...
National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski [Sept. 22] is a realist who understands Soviet motives and actions. For this reason, he is considered "controversial" and is disliked by many-in the State Department and media-who minimize and rationalize Soviet expansionism...
...Zbigniew Brzezinski: Excuse me, Senator. You may not be sure. I know I'm telling the truth...
...White House staff has prolonged this crisis to an unconscionable degree," William O. Beeman, assistant professor of anthropology at Brown, said. Specifically, he assailed the "extraordinarily irresponsible" actions of Zbigniew Brzezinski's National Security Council, which has reportedly frequently overruled State Department recommendations on Iran policy...
National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski believes that the U.S. and its allies can still head off disaster. "The area I once called the arc of crisis [the northern and western rim of the Indian Ocean] may well be the focus of our major effort in the 1980s to enhance geopolitical stability," Brzezinski says. "Between 1945 and 1955, the major thrust was in Western Europe and the Far East. From 1955 on, it was in assuring overall strategic stability vis-à-vis the Soviet Union. It is very likely that in the 1980s we will be involved in an unprecedented effort...