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...claim on such an uncertain battlefield and by top White House advisers who were reluctant to detract national attention from the President's economic program. Convinced that this battle would be cleanly and quickly won, the Secretary of State designated El Salvador as the location for a U.S. showdown-not just with a band of 6,000 leftist guerrillas, who were then in disarray, but with the international Communist threat. At one of his first staff meetings, TIME has learned, Haig delivered a stemwinding speech about the need for the U.S. to stop being pushed around by Soviet proxies...
...Guatemala against Nicaragua and the region's leftist insurgents. Ironically, that possibility is further strengthened by widespread talk about a negotiated settlement, one consequence of which would be to drive the right into even more desperate acts. On balance, by leaping voice first into an anti-Soviet showdown in Central America, the Administration may well have alienated many of the moderate elements it hoped to bolster...
...challenge; America must commit itself to a crusade against Communism, not just to geopolitical opposition to Soviet encroachment, or its policy will be based on quicksand. But obsession with ideology may translate into an unwillingness to confront seemingly marginal geopolitical challenges because they appear not to encapsulate the ultimate showdown-and thus lead to a gradual erosion, risking world peace as surely as a failure to face an overall challenge...
...champions three years ago, will battle Clarkson in the consolation at 5:30 to night, while the Huskies, who have split their two contests with Harvard this season, head for a classic Boston-area showdown in the late game...
...leaders decided on a showdown. Dobrynin announced to me that Soviet U.N. Representative Yakov Malik had just been instructed to support a resolution calling for the dispatch of American and Soviet troops to the Middle East if someone else introduced it. This, I knew, would be easy to arrange. I just had time to tell Dobrynin that we would never agree when I had to interrupt for a call from the President...