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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...supposed to replace the vulnerable stationary ICBMS-before it even gets off the drawing board. For the MX to be sure of surviving a Soviet first strike, there must be a strict limit on the number of warheads that the Soviets could throw at the MX. A year ago, the Soviets stayed out of the Vietnam-Chinese border war. One reason, say Soviet officials and American Kremlinologists alike, was that the Kremlin did not want to scuttle SALT during the final months of the negotiations. Since then, however, the U.S. has coupled SALT with its considerable increase in defense spending...
...rolled down the western route from Kushka, in the Soviet Union, to Kandahar. Another streamed in from the Soviet city of Termez over the road that passes through the Salang Pass to Bagram and Kabul. At the time the Soviets built this second route about 15 years ago, some Afghans had noted that the highway seemed strong and wide enough to accommodate tanks and troop carriers...
...doctor of law, a career diplomat in the Austrian foreign service, staid, elegant Kurt Waldheim had never confronted such a scene. Several hundred maimed Iranians, all veterans of the rioting that toppled Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi a year ago, shook their crutches and artificial limbs at the United Nations Secretary-General as they swarmed around him at a former military officers' club in Tehran. "Waldheim, look at us," shouted one of the wounded demonstrators. "Give the Shah back to us!" One man plucked out his glass eye and shouted: "That's what the Shah did to me!" Another...
...things seemed certain last week: 1) foreign policy will loom much larger as a campaign issue than any of the candidates would have predicted two months ago and 2) Jimmy Carter's sudden rise in popular esteem, based on his cool handling of the hostage situation, could fade just about as fast if his response to the twin problems of Iran and Afghanistan is eventually viewed by the voters as being ineffective. Despite the current commanding leads of Carter and Reagan for their party's nominations, 1980 promises to be a highly volatile political year...
...present American predicament began in "a search for a false popularity," a product of the chagrin over the Viet Nam years. The quest should be abandoned. Americans should recognize and accept the fact that much of world opinion runs against the U.S. now. Daniel Patrick Moynihan suggested five years ago that the U.S. should assume a role of minority opposition. Ultimately, the U.S. must appeal, as it has often done successfully, to other people's self-interests. At any rate it must put together a tight, coherent and absolutely consistent body of principles that it rep resents...