Word: brzezinski
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attitude dismayed much of the U.S. foreign policy establishment, moderates as well as hard-liners. Declared former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski: "This posture is disadvantageous and in bad taste. It is undesirable for us to be pleading for a summit with them." Privately, some of Reagan's senior advisers agreed. They suspected that Gorbachev's coyness about setting a firm date for a summit was a sign that he was setting up a snare instead...
...policy experts, and they accompanied him on a Western swing on Monday, grilling him with possible debate questions during a three-hour flight between St. Louis and San Francisco. The trio of wise men were two former Carter Administration officials?David Aaron, a deputy to National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, and Walter Slocombe, a onetime Defense Department official?and Barry Carter, who was an aide to Henry Kissinger on President Nixon's National Security Council...
...Brzezinski, who served under President Jimmy Carter, also suggested that Cabinet members hold monthly bipartisan meetings with legislators to discuss foreign policy, that Administrations create more bipartisan commissions, and that the President widen his circle of foreign policy advisors...
...Brzezinski, who returned in 1980 to his teaching post at Columbia University, engineered the aborted rescue of Iranian hostages and was instrumental in forcing out then-Secretary of State Cyrus Vance. He taught at Harvard for seven years during the 1950s...
...Brzezinski assailed both of the Presidential candidates' defense programs, calling "unsophisticated" Walter F. Mondale's support for a nuclear freeze and terming President Reagan's "Star Wars" defense scheme unrealistic. Mondale takes arms control and "elevates it to a fetish," he added...