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Shortly after, Morgenthau, to his credit, was to abandon this
conventional stance and become one of the few principled critics of the
Indochina war among US scholars.
168. Pearce, Under the Eagle, 62.
169. For an assessment of the US involvement in the assassination attempts,
see Gleijeses, Dominican Crisis, Appendix I.
170. Cole Blasier, The Hovering Giant (U. of Pittsburgh, 1976), 251f.; also
Lowenthal, Dominican Intervention, 27f., 44f.
171. Gleijeses, Dominican Crisis, 88f., 97; Blasier, Hovering Giant, 303.
172. Gleijeses, Dominican Crisis, 116f.
173. Murray Marder, WP, Oct. 30, 1983.
174. Herman and Brodhead, Demonstration Elections; PEHR, I; Penny
Lernoux, Cry of the People (Doubleday, 1980); Lisa Wheaton, in Sklar,
Trilateralism.
175. Leslie Gelb, NYT magazine, Nov. 13, 1983; John Silber, New Republic,
Feb. 18, 1985; Peter Kihss, NYT, July 5, 1982.
176. Barry, The Other Side of Paradise, 304; Latinamerica press, April 11,
1985.
177. Samuel Huntington, “American Ideals versus American Institutions,”
Political Science Quarterly, Spring 1982; correspondence, Winter 1982-
3.
178. Blasier, Hovering Giant, 57f.
179. LaFeber, Inevitable Revolutions, 11 2f; Schoultz, in Diskin, Trouble in
Our Backyard; Smith quoted in Blanche Wiesen Cook, The Declassified
Eisenhower (Doubleday, 1981), 253. On the CIA coup, see Cook;
Stephen Kinzer and Stephen Schlesinger, Bitter Fruit (Doubleday,
1981); Immerman, CIA in Guatemala.
180. Moore, “Tripping through Wonderland.” The same intriguing conception
of our “obligation” to attack Nicaragua under international law is
advanced by Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan in a speech applauding
the increase of the budget for intelligence (meaning, e.g., war against
Nicaragua) to the highest level “by any country at any point in history.”
The Times heading for this disgraceful performance is “Required