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...nature and by his legal training, a problem solver and a conciliator, a troubleshooter rather than a theoretician. His approach to huge, complex challenges has been to divide and conquer them one by one. He is uncomfortable with, and not very adept at, historical generalizations or global grand designs. Zbigniew Brzezinski, on the other hand, is a well-established, if somewhat controversial, geostrategist. He began talking of an "arc of crisis" around the Indian Ocean more than a year ago. He is also an anti-Soviet hard-liner of long standing. But Brzezinski too wanted the Carter Administration to distinguish...
...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...