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There may have been a step in that direction in a meeting last Friday between Secretary of State James Baker and Zalman Shoval, Israel's ambassador to the U.S. Baker reportedly proposed to condition the loan guarantees on Israel's agreement not to begin any new construction in the territories. Officials in Washington refused to confirm the reports, insisting that the Baker-Shoval meeting was just the first of a series and that no deal was likely for at least another month...
...course. Having dumped $4 billion into the country since 1980, the U.S. has become El Salvador's cash cow. A major cutback of funds from Washington was once as unthinkable as a slash in Soviet aid to Cuba; now it may also be just as inevitable. Ambassador William Walker tries to convince Salvadorans that American support for their country is unwavering. Yet he acknowledges, "I don't know any more than they do what's going to happen up on Capitol Hill." Given the economic climate in the U.S., foreign aid to a country no longer facing a communist insurgency...
...then a funny thing happened to Ephron -- or one she hoped she could turn into a funny thing. After criticizing celebrity journalists, she married one of the leading celebrity journalists, Bernstein, and found out, after others knew about it, that her husband was having an affair with the British ambassador's wife...
Recent investigation by a number of journalists has revealed that, as far as anyone can determine, the incident never happened. Nayirah is the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador and was coached in her story by public relations executives hired by the Kuwaiti government...
About the nicest thing that can be said about Kennedy's record on Vietnam was that--when he wasn't being a full-blown hawk--he was timid as the war grew, indecisive, and left the details to others (some of those others, like Ambassador Frederick "Fritz" Nolting in Saigon, were blind and inept; some, like McNamara, were too clever for anyone's good...