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Nuclear disarmement was only one of the many causes Myrdal joined to the benefit of humanity. She worked in social programs in underdeveloped nations and served as the Swedish ambassador to Burma and Nepal...
...important thing, as Ambassador Bosworth told a Philippine audience last year, is that the U.S. recognizes that its permanent interest in the Philippines lies not with any particular government but with the values the two countries have come to share during their long and intimate association. Said Bosworth: "We will be judged--and we will judge ourselves--by the fate of democracy in this country and by the success of your national efforts to strengthen your democratic institutions and to ensure that they function effectively. We have a moral and political stake in a democratic Philippines, which transcends...
...Shultz's rapport with the President has grown, his rivals for foreign policy primacy have been retired one by one from the inner circle. U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick and William Clark, a California crony of Reagan's who was National Security Adviser and supposedly the strong man of foreign policy when Shultz took office, have left the Government. Clark's successor, Robert McFarlane, took a front-and-center role in articulating policy for a while before Reagan's November summit meeting with Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev, but soon afterward he too resigned...
...Friday--As of yet, no Commencement speaker has been selected. Finalists are rumored to be: newly appointed Ambassador to Ireland Margaret M. Heckler, former EPA administrator Anne G. Burford, and the Walker family...
...peace prize to the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, the choice hardly seemed controversial. In a gesture of East-West amity, Soviet Cochairman Dr. Yevgeni Chazov and his U.S. counterpart, Dr. Bernard Lown, were named as recipients. A delighted Soviet government decided to allow its ambassador in Oslo to attend the Dec. 10 ceremonies. Moscow had boycotted Nobel proceedings since 1975, when Soviet Dissident Andrei Sakharov was awarded the coveted prize...