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...were playing an important role in the Salvadoran struggle. Said Sol Linowitz, one of the negotiators of the Panama Canal Treaty: "We found it sobering and reason for concern. We found what we were shown to be credible and quite persuasive." Added Jimmy Carter's National Security Adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski: "Disturbing." William Rogers, Richard Nixon's first Secretary of State, called the case "overwhelming" and added that it was the "duty of patriotic Americans to support their government when its position is sound...
...CFLA was created as an autonomous unit within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). The main objective of CFIA was--and remains--research of problems and trends in international relations. The impact of the center on U.S. foreign policy is apparent: at one time or another Henry Kissinger, Zbigniew Brzezinski and Thomas Schelling worked on CFLA projects. Today, the CFIA is the largest university-based center for international affairs research in the United States...
During the Carter Administration, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance argued that arms control was so important that it ought to be insulated from linkage. National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski retorted that Congress would impose punitive sanctions anyway, so the Administration had better Stay one jump ahead and exert some linkage of its own. But with the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in late 1979, domestic political support for arms control and détente all but evaporated...
...commission urged on the resistance and said, "Let us not forget that 'every nation can lose, but only the most vile ones surrender.' " Though most union leaders, including Solidarity Chairman Lech Walesa, are in government custody, a number of prominent Solidarity figures remain at large. Among them: Zbigniew Bujak, the Warsaw regional leader; Bogdan Lis, a former Walesa deputy; Zbigniew Janas, union leader at the Ursus factory. In an underground letter circulated last week, Janas called on workers to "prevent the destruction of Solidarity" and urged preparations for a nonviolent general strike...
...Poland's tumultuous year drew to a close, the ranking Solidarity leader still at liberty sent a message of "holiday greetings" to members and "to all our friends in Poland and abroad." Zbigniew Bujak, 27, the underground leader of Solidarity's Warsaw branch, appealed to soldiers and policemen to "listen to their consciences" and "not allow themselves to be used in the waging of war against the nation." Then, addressing himself to the families of the detainees, including Walesa's pregnant wife and six children, Bujak expressed a New Year's wish on behalf...