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...without this ability will be likely to perform well what Acheson once defined as "the central task of a foreign office: to recognize emerging problems in time . . . and prepare to deal with them...
Relations with the Soviets. What we are observing is the consequence of 15 years of increased military spending by the Soviet leadership. Clearly, the task ahead for us is the management of Soviet power. We can no longer view every deleterious event that occurs in the context of Soviet duplicity. But we cannot refrain from challenging illegal, blatant Soviet intervention creating terror and blackmail in the Third World. On Soviet Intentions. The next...
...compete with him, the conservative mullahs and their Islamic Republic Party feel that they must demonstrate an ability to improve relations with foreign governments, an obviously difficult task so long as the hostages remain in Iran. Ironically, no one sounded more eager to send the Americans home last week than I.R.P. Leader Ayatullah Seyyed Mohammed Beheshti, who had previously been instrumental in prolonging the crisis. Said Beheshti: "The U.S. has to a large extent met our demands. There is now no basic catch in reaching a final solution...
...week's end the hostages' where abouts were still secret and their fate uncertain. Diplomats in the State Department's Hostage Task Force were intent on pursuing a quiet, parallel set of negotiations: to arrange religious services for the hostages' second forlorn Christmas...
Obote's task: unity from chaos