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...years Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin ambled through the streets of Washington like a Russian bear who resembled your Uncle Ralph. There has never been anything quite like him in capital diplomacy. He survived Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Andropov, Chernenko and Gorbachev. Sighs Soviet Expert William Hyland: "That's a major achievement in itself...
Anatoli Dobrynin, 66, the Soviet Union's longtime Ambassador to Washington, will join the Secretariat, probably as a foreign policy adviser. His 24 years of service in Washington have earned him a reputation as a tough but pragmatic U.S. adversary who could be both charming and deceptive (see box). His inclusion in the inner circle of power suggests that U.S.-Soviet relations have become Gorbachev's overriding foreign policy concern. The leading candidates to replace Dobrynin as Ambassador to Washington are Yuli Vorontsov, 56, the Kremlin's suave Ambassador to Paris, and two Deputy Foreign Ministers, Viktor Komplektov...
ALEXANDER YAKOVLEV, 62, Ambassador to Canada from 1973 to 1983, who most recently controlled the propaganda department, joined Dobrynin in the Secretariat. His elevation bolstered rumors that the entire propaganda machinery would fall under Yakovlev's purview...
Aquino had the good fortune to lead a truly democratic rebellion, something quite different from the upheaval that ousted the Shah of Iran in 1979 and then degenerated into a regime of religious zealots. "This is not a revolt of the extremes," says Salvador Lopez, a former Philippine Ambassador to the United Nations. "This is a revolution of the center." For the moment, Filipinos, profoundly desirous of change, seem content simply to celebrate their emancipation. Says Lopez: "The people are happy that Marcos is gone, and that is the main thing." The challenge for the new President is to harness...
Palme first came to public attention in the U.S. in 1968 when, as Sweden's Education Minister, he marched side by side with the North Vietnamese Ambassador to Moscow at a rally to protest the American role in the Viet Nam War. As Prime Minister in 1972 he compared the U.S. bombing of Hanoi to the Nazi bombing of Guernica. That and other pronouncements so infuriated President Richard Nixon that he told the Swedes their Ambassador was no longer welcome in Washington...