Word: internationales
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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The human-rights organizations are quarreling among themselves. Middle East Watch, for example, contends that the recent report by Amnesty International detailing human-rights abuses in Kuwait is overdrawn. But the problem is one of degree only. When Middle East Watch says Amnesty's high-range estimate of perhaps a...
The account by London-based Amnesty International is crucial because it has dramatically affected the world's most important audience. Days after reading the 82-page report at Camp David, George Bush was still talking about it. "I ask you to read half of it," said the President during an...
One of his toughest jobs was getting the U.S. to believe that he and Gorbachev meant what they said. A breakthrough occurred at a private dinner in May 1989 when Shevardnadze convinced his American counterpart, James Baker, that Moscow was determined to deal with the weaknesses of its socialist system...
George Bush sits in the soft light of the Oval Office, tilted back in his chair, brow knitted, rimless glasses in his restless hands, then on his nose, then off again. He suddenly swivels, points a long forefinger at a stack of papers in the center of his neat desk...
He lowers his voice so much it is hard to hear him. He looks again at the Amnesty International report. "No question," he says. "You do not placate an aggressor. You do not reward aggression. There's a lot of historical precedent to look at on this one."