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Japan's preparations for that attack are recorded in an exhaustive new history timed to coincide with the anniversary, At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor (McGraw-Hill; $22.95). Author Gordon W. Prange, who died in 1980, began interviewing many of the Japanese principals while serving...
Against this seething background, the ill-timed and almost casual comments of President Ronald Reagan, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and Secretary of State Alexander Haig about how NATO would use nuclear weapons in Europe, about how a "limited" nuclear war could be fought, were incendiary. Even though the remarks were...
The endorsement was carefully timed for the opening of the Center Party's nominating convention. With the party split almost evenly between Karjalainen and the current Speaker of the Finnish Parliament, Johannes Virolainen, 67, Moscow obviously was trying to swing a few votes. Said Pravda: "This party is confronted...
Stockman's reasons for allowing the interviews remain open to speculation. Like Nixon, he probably had a bit too much of the desire to be a hero, an ill-timed lust that undermined the situation in the end. Reagan's reasons for keeping Stockman on in face of the immense...
That was only the latest salvo in a Soviet peace offensive that has been building to a crescendo over the past few months. The ultimate goal of this intense propaganda campaign is to drive a wedge between the U.S. and its Western European allies. The more immediate intent is to...