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...than economic and democratic reforms. The components: a legal structure that guarantees individual rights and the existence of independent institutions -- such as churches, trade unions, newspapers, political organizations, professional associations, private businesses -- that prevent the state from exerting a dominating influence in everyday life. Mark Palmer, America's energetic Ambassador to Hungary, argues persuasively that the U.S. should follow Western Europe's example in shoring up this evolution by creating a web of social, political, business and economic links to the people of Eastern Europe...
...advance knowledge of U.S. negotiating positions. The scandal led to paralysis, paranoia and recrimination. Electronic communication to and from the Moscow embassy stopped dead. Tons of equipment were torn out of the building and returned to the U.S. for analysis. After a distinguished career, Arthur Hartman, who was U.S. Ambassador to Moscow at the time of the suspected penetration, left the Foreign Service under a cloud. Hundreds of Marines who / had served as embassy guards in East bloc countries were grilled by agents of the Naval Investigative Service; dozens confessed to fraternizing, black- marketeering or other security violations...
...ground that the Soviets would retaliate by cutting the number of local Soviet employees allowed at the U.S. embassy in Moscow. That led to bitter disputes about the espionage threat posed by these local employees and about other security issues. By 1985 low- level warfare had broken out between Ambassador Hartman and security officials in Washington. "There was bad blood; there's no question about that," recalls a diplomat who served at the embassy. The 1987 Marine spy scandal appeared to vindicate the security experts' warnings. What's more, several other espionage cases involving the CIA and the military...
...office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees in London of Ahmed's plight. Ahmed was soon assured by UNHCR that he would receive assistance in Cairo, so he flew back to Egypt. But when the Egyptians tried to send him to Somalia, Ahmed kicked and screamed. The Somalian Ambassador was called in, and he acknowledged that Ahmed would be imprisoned if he landed in Somalia. So the Ethiopian was returned to Cyprus...
...York Representative Stephen Solarz, a highly liberal Democrat, and North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms, the curmudgeon of the Republican right, is pushing a bill that would compel the Administration, if the situation worsens, to stop all transfers of high-technology goods to China, suspend all investment and trade, recall Ambassador James Lilley and try to persuade international bodies such as the World Bank to cease making loans to China. Administration officials gloomily acknowledge that they may be driven to such steps if hard-line rulers in Beijing launch a purge of all who oppose them, further inflaming American opinion...