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...came into office when Reagan was cutting off funds from Washington. But there is always loose capital in the world money markets, and I know where it is, because of my experience as an ambassador and Congressman on the banking committee." Even during the campaign he has flown to London to do work as a consultant for an engineering company, and to Japan for a meeting of the International Olympic Committee. When not crossing one or another ocean, he has raised money from celebrity friends in Hollywood and New York City (Norman Lear welcoming him on the West Coast, Gloria...
Young has been an ambassador between different worlds from his childhood on. A Southerner in the North, then a partial outsider in the South, he could talk to all sides. In the 1976 presidential campaign, he convinced Northern liberals that Jimmy Carter was acceptable on racial matters. When Carter asked him to be ambassador to the U.N., Young said Barbara Jordan was better qualified. Carter, according to Young, replied, "You're right. But you have the one thing she doesn't have -- a connection with Dr. King. If we are to be convincing on the matter of human rights around...
...been a confidant of Martin Luther King Jr., a member of Congress, ambassador to the United Nations, Atlanta's mayor. Now Andrew Young wants to be Governor...
...still at work. After the arduous trials of Oliver North and Poindexter, Walsh's focus is on officials at other agencies who assisted the illegal contra supply operation or may have misled Congress. A prime target is Donald Gregg, an adviser to Vice President Bush who is now ambassador to South Korea. In 1985 and 1986 Gregg's friend Felix Rodriguez played a central role in running the contra arms flights from El Salvador. Gregg has testified that he knew nothing about Rodriguez's contra involvement until August 1986. However, both Gregg's secretary and Rodriguez have said the Bush...
None of the above, replied the Soviets. As Yuri Dubinin, former Soviet ambassador to the U.S., once put it, "Gorbachev has only one hobby: perestroika." The visitor from the Kremlin politely declined to go to Kennebunkport at all, or even to stay overnight at Camp David. The most he would agree to was eight hours of informal talks with Bush there Saturday. Still, the leaders and their aides did shed coats and ties in Maryland, and Gorbachev told a few of the salty jokes that Bush enjoys. The President took Gorbachev on a tour in a golf cart, and later...