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His 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...
Carrington's statements have polarized much of the academic legal community. Most CLS professors and a large number of moderates and liberals--including Harvard's highly-respected Tyler Professor of Constitutional Law Laurence H. Tribe '62--have called Carrington's comments offensive and accused him of witch-hunting.
But Kennedy points out that "there are many places where you can struggle effectively against social injustice. That includes influential, elite institutions like Harvard Law School." Kennedy and his colleagues make no claim to "moral purity," and they believe that they don't have to give up their careers in...
"Under Reagan, the peace process has come to a screeching halt," Carter declares, "and the debacle in Lebanon severely damaged or destroyed our influence in that area." Carter complains that instead of negotiation, Reagan "has tended to prefer the threat or use of American military force," a policy that has...
When the results were in, Zia pronounced the balloting a huge success. He admitted surprise at the defeat of some of the "sure winners," but the opposition threat, he said, "has turned out to be a spent bullet." Western diplomats tended to agree that the opposition parties had made a...