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...Anton Chekhov once remarked that medicine was his wife and literature his mistress. Ambassador George F. Kennan, 85, acknowledges that his own situation is "analogous, except that the mistress was far less beautiful than Chekhov's and had to content herself with much smaller pickings...
...Soviet Union and Poland, Panama is not," says Richard Lugar, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. "You need to make Noriega pay." To show its disapproval, the U.S. could restrict visas issued to pro-Noriega Panamanians, refuse to recognize the newly seated government, and turn away any ambassador sent to Washington by the Duque administration. The Administration wants to tighten sanctions, but further economic deterioration might fuel an anti-U.S. backlash. "When have economic sanctions ever toppled a regime?" asks Ambler Moss, a former U.S. Ambassador to Panama...
...Washington the Bush Administration cloaked its response in deliberately vague language. "My information is, we don't really know what they're talking about," said White House Press Secretary Marlin Fitzwater. Said former CIA Director Richard Helms, Ambassador to Iran from 1973 to 1976: "If it's true, it's a shame they got caught." At the Brookings Institution, Middle East specialist Yahya Sadowski speculated that Rafsanjani might be using the cry of spies as a way to divert attention from his own political problems...
...State Department bureaucracy is unanimously (though anonymously) convinced that a superpower negotiation on the fate of Europe would offend the Europeans. Last month James Baker publicly floated the idea, without quite endorsing it. Sure enough, transatlantic cables poured into Foggy Bottom with protests and warnings. The British Ambassador in Washington sought, and received, assurances that the Administration was not embracing the plan. Last week Kissinger insisted that his purpose is not to redo Yalta but to undo it. His proposal, he says, is to provide Eastern Europe with the political breathing room to reintegrate with the West while depriving...
...Government. Most egregious was the Kennedy School's award to former Attorney General Ed Meese. But the pattern hgas been borne out by many other events, such as allowing Assistant Secretary of State Elliot Abrams to dictate the conditions of his appearance at the K-School, "disinviting" former ambassador Robert White, an administration critic, at Abram's demand...