 | Martin Walker - 1995 - 418 pages
...was promulgated in the month before Gorbachev came to power, in Reagan's State of the Union address. 'We must not break faith with those who are risking...defy Soviet-supported aggression and secure rights that have been ours since birth . . . Support for freedomfighters is self-defence,' the President declared.22... | |
 | Raymond L. Garthoff - 2000 - 862 pages
...see chapter 13. "totally consistent with the OAS and UN Charters." But his appeal was for a crusade: "We must not break faith with those who are risking...Afghanistan to Nicaragua — to defy Soviet-supported aggression."14 This endorsement, encouragement, and direct support for various insurgencies against... | |
 | Seyom Brown - 1994 - 684 pages
...only for governments under attack by Communist rebels but also for rebels against Communist rulers: We must not break faith with those who are risking...continent, from Afghanistan to Nicaragua — to defy Soviet supported aggression and secure rights which have been ours from birth. . . . Support for freedom... | |
 | Robert Timberg - 1996 - 556 pages
...country." In his State of the Union message on February 6, 1985, with Boland in full force, Reagan said, "We must not break faith with those who are risking...defy Soviet-supported aggression and secure rights that have been ours since birth. . . . Support for freedom fighters is self-defense." On March 1, 1985,... | |
 | Alan P. Dobson - 1995 - 212 pages
...democratic allies [democratic here had a very elastic definition]. And we must not break faith with them who are risking their lives - on every continent,...and secure rights which have been ours from birth. 12 One such danger spot was the small British Commonwealth island of Grenada. During 1983, instability... | |
 | Alan P. Dobson - 1995 - 212 pages
...democratic allies [democratic here had a very elastic definition]. And we must not break faith with them who are risking their lives - on every continent,...aggression and secure rights which have been ours from birth.13 One such danger spot was the small British Commonwealth island of Grenada. During 1983, instability... | |
 | John D. Martz - 1995 - 436 pages
...of the Union message to dress up his Contra program into a doctrine on wars of national liberation: "We must not break faith with those who are risking...every continent from Afghanistan to Nicaragua to defy Soviet -supported aggression and secure rights which have been ours from birth. . . . Support for freedom-fighters... | |
 | Betty Jean Craige - 1996 - 214 pages
...address, President Reagan expounded what the press called "the Reagan doctrine"—in Reagan's words, "We must not break faith with those who are risking...and secure rights which have been ours from birth" (Reagan WCPD 6 Feb. 1985). 8. This rallying cry was first uttered by Stephen Decatur in 1816, in Norfolk,... | |
 | James M. Scott - 1996 - 356 pages
...Reagan Doctrine was first enunciated. President Reagan (1985a, 146) insisted that the United States "must not break faith with those who are risking their...continent, from Afghanistan to Nicaragua, to defy Soviet-sponsored aggression and secure rights which have been ours since birth. . . . Support for freedom... | |
 | Paul N. Edwards - 1996 - 468 pages
...faith with those who are risking their lives—on every continent, from Afghanistan to Nicaragua—to defy Soviet-supported aggression and secure rights...birth.... Support for freedom fighters is self-defense." 8 Reagan backed this policy with massive support for counter-revolutionary civil wars in Afghanistan... | |
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Our mission is to nourish and defend freedom and democracy and to communicate these ideals everywhere we can. We must stand by all our democratic allies. And we must not break faith with those who are risking their lives on every continent, from Afghanistan... 
