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That record, says Richard T. Kennedy, the Reagan Administration's ambassador- at-large for nonproliferation issues, provides grounds for both "cautious optimism and vigilance." Says he: "The situation ought not to give us a sense of great comfort for the future. But thus far (the nonproliferation system) has worked pretty well. Extraordinary vigilance and extraordinary effort just might give us another 20 years of the same...
Carl Gershman, 41, president of the NED and a former counselor to Jeane Kirkpatrick when she was U.N. Ambassador, seemed to have no mea culpas in mind. Citing the agreement that allowed the NED to "consult" with the IFP, Gershman expressed concern about a number of the selections -- Seymour Hersh's The Price of Power, Jonathan Kwitny's Endless Enemies and Jonathan Schell's The Fate of the Earth -- saying that they reflected the views "of only one segment of the American political spectrum." He asked not that they be withdrawn but that others from a conservative perspective be included...
...times? It should be the outline of the ubiquitous green Perrier bottle. Whether it is imported from exotic locales or comes from a local spring, cool, clear water is the quaff of the moment. "Everyone is drinking Perrier and iced tea," observes Sondra Gotlieb, wife of the Canadian Ambassador to the U.S. "White wine is almost daring now." The temperate mood is transforming the ways in which the nation works, plays and socializes. New attitudes toward careers, fitness and the very image of what we are and wish to become are being altered. Americans are tackling the entrenched social problems...
...State Department reacted to the Soviet hostility by instructing ambassadors and other heads of mission not to attend Soviet V-E day celebrations but instead to send lower-ranking diplomats. Arthur Hartman, the U.S. Ambassador to Moscow, boycotted the Red Square parade in specific protest against the killing of U.S. Army Major Arthur Nicholson in March by a Soviet sentry in East Germany. But Hartman did lay a wreath at Moscow's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. "This is our tribute to those who gave their lives," he said. "It is the most significant ceremony...
...duties (issuing passports and visas and handling problems faced by Americans abroad) while men are given more powerful political, economic or administrative posts. The department counters that the situation has been improving. Among its witnesses will be Joan Clark, Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs. Not expected: former Ambassador to the U.N. Jeane Kirkpatrick, who charged in a speech last December that stiff resistance to women still exists in the diplomatic corps...