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...disgraceful for James Lilley, U.S. Ambassador to South Korea, to say he thinks Korean national security is more important than democratic reforms. With that comment he was either insulting the intelligence of the Korean people or misrepresenting American ethics. Many Koreans are convinced that their army cannot be deployed without American approval. Thus, when President Chun used the army to massacre civilians in Kwangju, Koreans became deeply disturbed by American policy...
...innumerable stories about daring exploits that either were embellished or seem never to have happened. Another reason is that he operated far out of sight of much of the official Government. He claimed to have done much of the planning for the invasion of Grenada. But Jeane Kirkpatrick, then Ambassador to the United Nations, who attended the meeting at which that invasion was finally approved, says North was not present and his name never came up. Indeed, for all her deep involvement with Central American policy generally and the contras specifically, Kirkpatrick says she heard little about North...
...meantime, Vernon Walters, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, flew to Moscow to discuss ways of ending the gulf war. At week's end, Moscow called for the withdrawal of all foreign warships from the gulf and criticized the U.S. military buildup. This week the Soviet-American dialogue will continue when Richard Murphy, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State who specializes in Middle Eastern affairs, holds talks in Geneva with his Soviet counterpart, Vladimir Polyakov...
...Kremlin jobs. Trained as a teacher, Yakovlev became a professional party worker following combat duty in World War II. After becoming acting head of the party's propaganda department in 1973, he was on the losing side of an obscure ideological dispute. As punishment, he spent ten years as Ambassador to Canada...
...Washington, White House officials disclosed last week that Syrian President Hafez Assad had accepted a written proposal from President Reagan for high-level talks on a variety of issues. The U.S. envoy to Damascus is likely to be Ambassador to the United Nations Vernon Walters...