Word: zbigniew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Washington, Correspondents Christopher Ogden and Gregory Wierzynski interviewed Zbigniew Brzezinski and other top officials, while Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott contributed an assessment of the future of SALT. From Moscow, Bureau Chief Bruce Nelan reported on the state of detente as seen from the Soviet vantage. One index of Soviet-American relations, he finds, is the degree of difficulty that journalists in Moscow have in reaching sources. Reports Nelan: "Officials are still willing to open their doors to U.S. newsmen, but if relations really freeze over, we could be out in the cold." But so far, Moscow has been...
...anyone in the Administration could have smiled during last week's crisis, it was National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, who has long been trying to get Carter to take a tougher stance toward the Soviets, and who has long been paying particular attention to Afghanistan. Since July, he has regarded the leftist Afghanistan regime as vulnerable to the Muslim insurgents, and he has even enjoyed hinting, without saying so, that the U.S. might covertly aid those insurgents. To reporters and other visitors, he would recite statistics from secret cables that littered his desk. He could tick off the casualties...
Exactly a year ago, as the Shah's regime was crumbling in Iran, Zbigniew Brzezinski began warning about instability in the whole "arc of crisis," to the south of the Soviet Union. Last week, with his desk piled a foot high with classified cables on Afghanistan, Brzezinski gave an interview to TIME Correspondents Christopher Ogden and Gregory Wierzynski. Usually ebullient, he was somber and chose his words with exceptional care. Excerpts...
...harm. As Henry Kissinger often said, SALT is not a reward for Soviet good behavior; treaties between adversaries can be more useful than treaties between friends; especially in periods of heightened tension between adversaries, treaties can be vital in setting bounds for competition. Kissinger's rival and successor, Zbigniew Brzezinski, echoed that same point last week when he said the U.S. and the Soviet Union need SALT now more than ever...
...bureaucracy fouled up. The folks in the Zil limousines, especially the Brezhnev-clone Soviet premier, Maxim Rudin, are not amused, and Rudin's Kremlin rivals want to use the crisis to get the old curmudgeon bounced. Back in Washington, Bill Matthews and Assistant for National Security Affairs, Stanislaw (read Zbigniew) Poklewski, and Secretary of State David (read Cyrus) Lawrence want to use the shortage to wring concessions out of the Russians...