Word: handly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nuclear age we cannot be without a dialogue with Moscow. It is imperative for the preservation of peace. On the other hand, it is essential that we know what it is we want to talk about. And here we face two problems. I am not sure that our Government has a clear idea of what it wants to achieve in a dialogue. And I am sure that the alliance as a whole is divided as to what its common position ought to be; indeed whether it needs a common position. So the danger is that talks will either become purely...
...society. At some point the President has to choose which philosophy he wants to pursue if he wants to stake a claim to leadership. If there are philosophical disagreements, somebody has a problem of principle. The person who has a problem with principle ought to leave. On the other hand, if there is an agreement on principle, your disagreements are tactical and therefore soluble. This Administration has no coherent philosophy. If in the fourth year of an Administration, the Secretary of State resigns over principle, that is not a trivial matter. And it explains why it is that foreign peoples...
...main target was the rescue plan. Some critics charge that it was too lean and spare, with far too few men and aircraft to overwhelm the militants holding the embassy in crowded Tehran, pick up the hostages and escape safely. On the other hand, other critics argue that the plan was too sophisticated and complex, with too many staging points and too many chances for detection before the assault on the embassy...
...offer stunned Washington, which had agreed to take its complement of 3,500 embassy refugees with the understanding that the Immigration and Naturalization Service could screen them before allowing them into the U.S. Suddenly thousands were landing illegally in Florida with no entry visas in hand. Washington first implored boat-owners not to head for Mariel. When that failed to deter the flotilla, the Government hinted it might accept only the first 3,500, whether embassy refugees or not, and deport the rest. The threat was correctly seen as an empty one since the U.S. has routinely granted asylum...
Indeed that is a challenge the Carter Administration is still scrambling to meet. "We want to stop the flow because Castro cannot be allowed to dictate who comes into the U.S.," said one State Department official. "On the other hand, we have a tradition of accepting people from Cuba and it's highly unlikely that we would send people back...