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...ideas. They have also become brokers of power, based on their natural resources and geopolitical positioning. This means that the U.S. cannot hope to continue dominating them, or to threaten them, indefinitely; it must also learn to bargain and cooperate with them. Another problem is that the state apparatus and the people of these nations are not synonomous. Presumably the point of a foreign policy with ideological content is to foster an appreciation of the Western conception of individual rights and democratic instruments among the latter. Yet this implies selecting means geared toward reaching the peoples of these countries...
Many other conditions have helped to reduce the parties' circumstances. The relentless attention of pollsters to the public mood means that candidates and officeholders receive their instructions directly from the people, rather than through the party apparatus. Impresarios of media-like White House Adviser Gerald Rafshoon-orchestrate campaigns without the party's help or intervention...
...heart of the conflict is a fundamental, perhaps irreconcilable disagreement over the role of the press. To the West, the press is the independent Fourth Estate, watchdog of the other three, and profit-making servant of an informed electorate. To the Communist world, the press is an apparatus of the state charged primarily with educating the masses about state policies. Third World leaders may prefer the Western model, but believe they need a controlled press to promote economic development, accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative. Observes Chicago Tribune Editor Clayton Kirkpatrick: "I hear the same complaints from the Third...
...been subjected. Last week, for the first time, Iranians read about the horrors that much of the rest of the world already knew: the "Apollo machine," a chair in which prisoners were tied while their feet were slashed and they were tortured with electric shock; the "helmet," a metal apparatus designed to make the victim's screams reverberate inside his head; and such practices as hanging women prisoners naked from the ceiling and burning them with cigarettes. So shocking were the disclosures that newly appointed Justice Minister Hussein Najafi immediately promised the release of Iran's remaining political...
...that time Anastasio Somoza Garcia, father of Anastasio Somoza Debayle, was dictator. Somoza was brought to power by the marines in the early '30s and enjoyed Washington's consistent support. Somoza, a fervent capitalist who, like his son, never hesitated to use the state apparatus to augment his personal fortune, was logically enough fervently anti-communist. Given Somoza's anti-communism, Nicaragua's strategic position in the heart of Central America, and the possibility of building a second transisthmian canal through Nicaraguan territory, the U.S. was more than happy to prop up the Somoza regime both militarily and economically...