Word: chessboard
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Vance came into office with a far more coherent, sensible and innovative vision of America's challenge than was usually acknowledged. His most cherished goal was for the U.S. to learn to deal with Third World nations on their own terms rather than as pawns on the strategic chessboard. He wanted to develop a foreign policy that would allow the U.S. to accommodate itself to revolutionary change rather than always finding itself among the losers...
...everything about the piano, he goes his own way. There was, for instance, the time he closeted himself to prepare for an important concert. Friends, hearing no music, opened his door to investigate. He was seated at the piano, but the lid was closed. On it rested a chessboard on which he was intently playing against himself...
...example, Pakistan was a triple target for American pressure: the U.S. was working to thwart the country's nuclear aspirations, goading the military government to restore democracy, and withholding military supplies. Now U.S. policymakers look at Pakistan as a vital and vulnerable piece on the strategic chessboard, and they are muting their civics lectures and reversing their arms-sale policy accordingly...