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Bush personified his current approach to the Soviet Union last week when he appointed Robert Strauss, a veteran Democratic Party leader and Washington lawyer, to be his next ambassador in Moscow. The appointment was hailed almost unanimously in Washington as a brilliant move. Strauss, 72, knows all there is to know about how Washington politics and American business work, though admittedly next to nothing about the Soviet Union. If Gorbachev pursues real economic change and there are deals to be made with him, Strauss can help close them. Of course, if reform stalls again and bilateral relations sour, Strauss could...
Both the President and Congress are taking up residence in false premises. Bush should not expect the totalitarians who run China to change their behavior at home and abroad simply to keep U.S. tariff rates low. Says Zhu Qizhen, the Chinese ambassador in Washington: "We are not going to beg the U.S. to extend MFN." Congress would be equally naive to think cutting off MFN will force China to reverse its economic and security policies. Such a public loss of face would be intolerable to Beijing...
...under arms, but its equipment is obsolete. With an annual defense budget of just over $6 billion, the military modernization will be a long time coming. China's permanent seat in the U.N. Security Council gives it little more than disruptive potential. "Geostrategically," says Winston Lord, a former U.S. ambassador to Beijing, "China needs us more than we need them...
Rahmuna Shehabuddin--known to friends as "Elora"--was doing thesis research in her native Bangladesh when she heard the news: Her parents and two sisters were among the millions trapped by the Iraqi army in Kuwait City. Her mother and sisters were released in September, but her father, the ambassador from Bangladesh, would remain a hostage in Baghdad for two weeks, before finally leaving in October...
...After last week's summary trial of suspected collaborators, State Department spokeswoman Margaret Tutwiler consulted Ambassador Gnehm and chose to emphasize the positive. She said the U.S. embassy had urged the Kuwaiti government "to have open trials; they were open. We also urged that the defendants have a right to counsel; they did." But she ignored the fact that lawyers had not met their clients, saw none of the prosecution's evidence and could not cross-examine witnesses. Under questioning, she acknowledged "glitches" in the trials. Only later did the State Department issue a mild communique saying...