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Ortega made the first move. While the inauguration was taking place, Nicaraguan representatives ascended from their third-floor quarters in Montevideo's aging Victoria Plaza Hotel to the heavily guarded fifth floor. There, they formally asked Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Latin American Affairs Craig Johnstone for a meeting...
The Administration reacted with alternating doses of vehemence and guarded flexibility. Speaking to the Council on Foreign Affairs in Austin, Vice President George Bush declared that Ortega's suggestions "do not appear to represent significant moves." Bush warned that if the U.S. failed to aid the contras, "we run the...
The strategic concept has an answer to that question, a highly problematic one. The document envisions a "period of transition," starting around 1995, during which both sides would still have their offensive nuclear missiles. Those weapons would be protected by a latter-day version of ABMs called ballistic missile defense...
Reputation, of all human possessions, is perhaps the least tangible yet the most zealously guarded. To be known for integrity and honor, most people willingly labor a lifetime. Even a rogue may cherish the mistaken notion that he enjoys the respect of his community. As Shakespeare's foulest villain, Iago...
Soviet officials have also begun to murmur the name of the "vacation spot" where Chernenko may be staying. It is the so-called Kremlin Hospital, a heavily guarded facility seven miles northwest of the Kremlin in an exclusive, wooded suburban area known as Kuntsevo. Traffic police who may be KGB...