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...London, as guests of Queen Elizabeth II. The larger purpose of his journey was to reassure Europeans that the U.S. remained committed to nato and genuinely sought peace and arms reduction with the Soviet Union. Although Reagan was confronted in West Berlin by several thousand hostile demonstrators, the overall reaction to his visit was positive, as we described in a June 21, 1982, report...
...Krauthammer believes that the U.S. should not care that Europeans disagree with its foreign policy. He says such a reaction is the result of envy. What is it others are supposed to be envious of? I live in Norway, and most of the Americans I know would rather stay here than return to the U.S. Safety, freedom, a clean environment, high standards of living: these are among the most important issues to Europeans, and we have had hundreds of years of experience in learning how they can be achieved. What can the U.S. offer Europe that it does not already...
...back, Washington last week dispatched its top National Security Council official for Asia, James Moriarty, to Taipei to ask Chen to cool it over the sovereignty issue and, according to a senior official in Chen's administration, "urge us not to miss the sense of urgency" in Beijing's reaction. "The U.S. conveyed a message to us that had come directly from China," says the official. The warning worked?to a degree. Chen reiterated a commitment made at his inauguration in 2000 to not change Taiwan's status and vowed that any referendum would not touch on "independence or reunification...
...years for having aggravated Taiwan's poor economy. Still, by harping on the referendum issue, Chen has managed to achieve two key election objectives: telegraphing to his hard-core supporters, who want independence, that he has not forgotten about protecting the island's sovereignty, and belatedly provoking an irate reaction from Beijing. His critics in Taiwan fear he has gone too far. "He has put his own interests above those of national security," says Sisy Chen, a former staffer of Chen's Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and now an independent legislator. "He's playing a very dangerous game...
...jail by the Islamic regime, or assaulted herself. "Fear, like hunger, is an instinct," she says. "It comes whether you like it or not." But when the moment of terror came, Ebadi, typically, was not worrying about her own well-being. She was more concerned about her family's reaction than what she might face in Tehran's notorious Evin Prison. So instead of waiting for agents to knock on her door, she told her husband and two children that she was going away to visit a friend. To avoid a traumatic scene, Ebadi slipped off to an Islamic court...