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Kinnock also claimed the Perle and Weinberger blasts did not have the backing of the White House. But U.S. Ambassador to Britain Charles Price, who attended the Blackpool conference, instantly replied that the two Pentagon officials indeed spoke for the Reagan Administration. Price said U.S. views should be made known so that Labor's defense policy "can be put on the table for examination when the British people come to vote...
...monolithic society, 98% of which is native born and historically chauvinistic, picked up on the horrific implications in the remark. Then the reaction from the U.S. hit the fan. William H. Gray III of Pennsylvania, black chairman of the House Budget Committee, angrily withdrew a dinner invitation to Japanese Ambassador Nobuo Matsunaga. Representative Mickey Leland of Texas led the 21-member Congressional Black Caucus in calling on President Reagan to demand an apology. Esteban Torres of California and his 14-member Hispanic Caucus were equally furious...
...atrocities in Nanking during 1937 were acceptable in the context of military conflict. Having fired his top educator for such a profound national and ethnic offense, Nakasone appeared to have stepped into the same minefield. At week's end the Prime Minister backtracked completely, expressing a "heartfelt apology" through Ambassador Matsunaga, who read the statement on Capitol Hill. His words won a measure of forgiveness from Gray and Leland, thus perhaps defusing political and economic consequences of the affair. But as Professor Shibuya's blast indicated, the Prime Minister still had an earful coming from educators, who rated his remarks...
...defeat as of sustaining its tattered policy of "constructive engagement." The White House was searching frantically last week for ways of winning enough Republican votes to sustain a presidential veto. One plan was to announce immediately the appointment of Edward Perkins, a black career diplomat, as the new U.S. Ambassador to South Africa. At the same time, the President would issue an Executive Order, much like the one announced last year, imposing limited new sanctions against South Africa. Also in the planning stage was an African trip by Secretary of State George Shultz. Thus, through various efforts, the White House...
Only one concrete move looked like U.S. retaliation for Daniloff's confinement. On Wednesday American officials handed Soviet U.N. Ambassador Alexander Belonogov the names of 25 members of the Soviet, Belorussian and Ukrainian U.N. missions who are to be expelled from the U.S. by Oct. 1. All 25 were intelligence officers, Administration officials said at a briefing in Washington. Six months ago, the U.S. had ordered the swollen mission staffs to be reduced by about 38% -- from 275 to 170 -- in four stages beginning Oct. 1, but had left it to Moscow to choose whom to send packing...