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When Energy Secretary James Schlesinger saw China's Chairman Hua Kuo-feng in November, he was asked to relay greetings to only two men in Washington: Jimmy Carter and Zbigniew Brzezinski, The President's National Security Adviser, who made a diplomatically crucial visit to China last May, has long been the most forceful advocate within the Administration of normalizing relations with Peking. Last week TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott interviewed Brzezinski on his thoughts about the changing Sino-American relationship...
Ball's conclusions differed from the views of the man who invited him to Washington to review U.S. policy on Iran: Carter's National Security Adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski. Until now at least, Brzezinski has held that the U.S. should back the Shah staunchly, in part because of the unsettling effects any wavering about the Shah might have on such other monarchies as Saudi Arabia and Jordan. Officials insisted that as of last week, however, there was no disagreement within the Administration on fundamental points. Certainly the Ball report's conclusions are shared by most Middle East experts at the State...
...case Iran's production dwindled even further than it had already. At week's end a strike by oil workers had cut the country's normal daily production of 6 million bbl. to about half that total. Then, at the suggestion of National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, the President invited George Ball, an Under Secretary of State in both the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, to join the National Security Council temporarily as a special consultant. His job: to prepare a long-range option paper on Iran and the Persian Gulf...
...anti-inflation effort, that office is Kahn's last stop before visiting Carter. Another day, a visitor finds Jordan closeted with Charles Kirbo, the President's Atlanta-based confidant and troubleshooter, and Jay Solomon, head of the troubled General Services Administration. Yet another day, National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski shows up to remind Jordan that a foreign affairs meeting awaits his presence...
...should have anticipated the Shah's troubles much sooner-but that somebody else was responsible for the failure to do so. Some State Department officials complained that in Tehran, U.S. Ambassador William Sullivan had suppressed pessimistic, and prophetic, cables from underlings. Others blamed Presidential National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, whose theory it is that the U.S. must bolster "regional influentials" like Iran. That theory, said the critics, was based on the false assumption that military might plus oil wealth equals political stability and failed to take account of the corruption, mismanagement and religious opposition that undercut the Shah...