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NEW YORK, APRIL 21 WE read of the protocols that confronted President Bush, even as they vexed President Hu Jintao. We safely assume that most of the questions were explored [...]

What Mr. Bush Left Out NEW YORK, MARCH 18 The finality of the long -- seemingly endless -- period of indecision, fractured alliances, ambivalent allies, and fruitless diplomacy had an [...]

Dying Words on Health NEW YORK, JULY 2 The health question is a mess. The GOP, for all that it is fighting a rear-guard action, has no real handle on [...]

NEW YORK, AUGUST 28 The bugles are sounding, to rouse not the American military, but the Israeli military. George Will, writing in his syndicated column, wants war. At greater length, [...]

NEW YORK, JULY 13 From this quarter there was no call made on the Bush administration to heave into the Olympic Games question, seeking to obstruct the selection of Peking [...]

NEW YORK, MAY 1 Invitations can be tricky, as President Bush most keenly discovered on Monday when he invited the whole legislative gang to lunch and was greeted by only [...]

NEW YORK, APRIL 17 The moment is not far away when we will face what is most conveniently referred to as The Taiwan Question. The tense fortnight following the EP-3 [...]

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to the article "A British View of the U.S. Policy" in the October 12, 1953 issue.

NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 2 The Lockerbie decision reminded everybody that Libya is one of what we used to call rogue states, a designation gone out of fashion. Diplomacy doesn't like [...]

NEW YORK, JANUARY 2 On the matter of the impasse in the Middle East, a few observations: 1. There is no way the United States can decisively affect the Arab/Israeli [...]

Castro's U.N. Ride NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 8 Well, did you hear what Castro, that old joker, did when he went on stage to speak to the General Assembly? There is [...]

NEW YORK, JUNE 26 Everybody in Xian, it is reported, wanted to see President Clinton, and one man, who sat for four hours just to see the presidential caravan glide [...]

NEW YORK, DECEMBER 19 The question of the United Nations and bills not paid by Uncle Sam is vexing at several levels. First question: Is the assessment fair? Should the [...]

'Mr. President, President Clinton said in his exchange with you that on the matter of human rights you were on the dark side of history. What is your comment on [...]

On the day that the Boutros-Ghali question came to the crunch at the United Nations, Speaker Newt Gingrich was telling friends that in fact the United States can't dodge its [...]

Over the weekend, an editorial writer expressing reservations about the longevity of Saudi gratitude wrote that oil prices will not rise significantly 'for a year or so.' The writer tacitly [...]

WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY JR. Declare War? Pull Out of NATO? NEW YORK, APRIL 13 On Tuesday we read that the Wall Street Journal thinks that Congress should declare war against [...]

NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 24 Concerning the Baghdad Pact, a few observations: 1. Is it so, as ventured by one broadcaster on the scene, that Saddam is bigger today than he [...]

Those who are surprised by Senator Helms's okay on the idea of CNN-in-Havana will have forgotten that, in July 1995, Helms endorsed the idea of news exchanges with Cuba. But [...]

Most of us have provocative little epigrams, stored in the catacombs of the mind because they tend to be (mine are) iconoclastic. From time to time they leap up, demanding [...]

Senator Helms has withdrawn his rider on the defense bill, but he promises that the measure will be reintroduced, and we ought at least to know what we are up [...]

This article presents news briefs related to global politics. Former U.S. President Bill Clinton always regretted that he was not a war president, which he believes would have allowed him to join the ranks of America's great leaders. The administration of U.S. President George W. Bush recently proposed splitting the Immigration and Naturalization Service into two separate agencies, the Bureau of Immigration Enforcement and the Bureau of Immigration Services. The conflict between India and Pakistan is a hard case, in part because the U.S. has a stake in both sides. India shares the U.S. interests in containing China, ensuring the free flow of oil, and fighting Islamic radicalism. Failure to prosecute people for the crimes they committed in the name of Communism is perhaps the main reason why countries of the old Soviet bloc have found it hard to launch a civil society with respect for the law. Japan, one of the key signatories of the Kyoto protocol, announced that it would not meet the treaty's mandated targets for greenhouse-gas emissions.

The article presents a speech by "National Review" editor William F. Buckley Jr., delivered at the International Conservative Congress held in Washington, D.C. in September 1997. He discusses the challenges to conservatism and the conservative movement. These challenges, need to be confronted, in an era where post-Cold War gave no unifying bias for conservatives to pursue. Conservatives, he points out, must also involve themselves in concretely resolving social issues and problems.

The article presents news briefs on world politics as of May 1983. The U.S. Senate voted against withholding taxes on savings and investments. The Soviet troops in Afghanistan have already completed one of the most brutal offensives of the war, starting mid-April. A biography of former U.S. President Herbert Hoover, has been published by George Nash.

Looks at the status of the relations of China with the U.S. during the regime of U.S. President Richard Nixon. Information on the defense treaty of the U.S. with Taiwan; Impact of the relations of the U.S. with Taiwan on its relations to China; Plans of the U.S. government on China.

Comments on issues related to the Vietnam war. Impact of the war on Laos' economics; Reasons for the low defection rate among North Vietnamese soldiers; Critique of the U.S. government's policy toward Vietnam.

Discusses the position of U.S. Republican Senator and Presidential candidate Barry Goldwater on various political issues in the country in 1964. Comments on the possible withdrawal of the country in the United Nations (UN); Prediction of the Senator's policy towards the UN; Support of the politician for the National Atlantic Treaty Organization.

Presents views of the author on the critics of the U.S. House Committee on Un-American Activities. Differences on the fact of the Soviet Union intransigence; Opinion of the author that the Soviet threat is real, a non-controversial assumption shared by the entire spectrum of non-Communist opinion in this country; Need to analyze the arguments against the Committee in the light of dual commitment to the national defense and a free society; Judgment that the Committee should not consider itself free to explore Un-American Activities.

What Is The Pope Saying? IN THE DAY or two following the release of Pope John Paul's encyclical (Sollicitudo Rei Socialis) the telephones rang across continents and oceans among the [...]

THE POPE'S LETTER THE POPE has addressed the president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, citing the Holocaust as the grimmest recent experience of national Godlessness. He has done [...]

WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE DELLUMS BILL? THERE IS a lot of cynicism in the air on the matter of the vote by the House of Representatives for sanctions against South [...]

TRIVIAL PURSUITS IF ONE CAN take leave of Manila and Johannesburg for just a moment, in search of a trivial pursuit or two, I like the one about the concert [...]

REAGAN & QADDAFI: REACTIONS AN OBVIOUSLY discouraged American ambassador said, after visiting the West German Foreign Office in the wake of President Reagan's press conference: 'It is a matter of [...]

RONALD REGAN should take more seriously than recently he has done the charge by his critics that he is all theater. Granted that his critics will take any opportunity to [...]

THE FIRST impulse, on reading the words of King Hussein, was in this case to hit him hard. People don't get away with speaking thataway to the U.S.A., and while [...]

The article presents an interview with Panama President Demetrio Lakas about the proposed Panama Canal treaty in 1976. When asked about a defense treaty between Panama and the U.S., he redirected the answer to explaining the rationale of a treaty. He emphasized the long-term relationship between the U.S. and Panama. He explained the relationship between the public and political leaders. He reiterated the role of the public in governance and government policy-making. He described in metaphor the anti-American sentiment among Latin American countries.

Offers a look at issues surrounding a proposal made by political theorist James Burnham, which focused on the military generalizations advanced by the Soviet Union and West Germany. Views of William Schlamm on the advantage of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the West Germany over the Soviet Union; Background on the dispute between Wladyslaw Gomulka, a Polish communist leader, and the Kremlin; Comments on a statement made by Burnham regarding the assumptions of the administration of U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower concerning the military generalizations.

Discusses the U.S. foreign policy towards Taiwan. Attitude of Liberals towards the U.S. foreign policy; Reasons for the failure of the U.S. foreign policy; Description of the U.S. as the powerful nation in the world; Requirement of an internal police force of three million persons to maintain the Bolshevik despotism; Comment on the movement for unilateral disarmament.

Focuses on the political participation of Kenneth Tynan, Englishman, critic, who was called for questioning by the U.S. congressional committee. Association of Tynan with a commercial British television company called Associated Television to improve relations between Great Britain and the U.S.; List of twenty-odd lively American mavericks whom he invited to speak on the state of non-conformity in general; Terror faced by him at the summon session of the U.S. Senate Internal Security Subcommittee.

WHAT'S DIFFERENT ABOUT NICARAGUA? MR. TOM WICKER of the New York Times, the guardian of U.S. appeasement, opposes U.S. aid to the Contras for boilerplate reasons (the Soviets will increase [...]

LONG ROAD AHEAD FOR SENATOR BIDEN SENATOR JOSEPH BIDEN of Delaware, addressing Secretary of State George Shultz and the television camera, acted as though he had just come to town [...]

CAUTION: DISILLUSION AHEAD THE PRESIDENT won a noisy moral victory in the House when he turned it around on the question of aid to the Contras. He is helped both [...]

HERE is what's happening among many conservative legislators in the matter of South Africa. On the one hand they tend to believe, with Mr. Reagan, that constructive engagement is the [...]

SOMEBODY really ought to ask Tip O'Neill a very direct question, namely, whose side is he on? For almost two years, the Democratic leadership has been asking President Reagan to [...]

JUST ABOUT all the major reasons arguing against a precipitate Reagan-Chernenko meeting were given by Tip O'Neill in one of those overwhelmingly demagogic pronoucements in which he excels. 'You can't,' [...]

FULLY TO understand the president of Mexico, Mr. de la Madrid, requires the patience of an archaeologist. Chaucer would be easier to handle than the president's English. Granted that the [...]

THERE WAS a nice political story in the New York Times the other day, the import of which is that Gary Hart is making a considerable effort to depict himself [...]

FOR MODERATION IN OSCULATION I WANT TO know one very simple thing: Why do non-totalitarian leaders embrace totalitarian leaders? By 'embrace' I do not intend a metaphor, as in, 'During [...]