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Participants in the panel were: Michael McEthe, a Harvard gradate student who led a Black trade union in South Africa; Daniel A. Swanson '74, a reporter who traveled in South Africa while writing under the pseudonym James North; Donald Norland, former U.S. Ambassador to four African nations; and Kenneth Carstens, a South African academic who now heads a fund to provide legal aid to political prisoners in South Africa...
...some degree, the Soviets have been giving mixed signals on the subject. Even as the border situation grew more threatening last week, Soviet Ambassador to the U.S. Anatoli Dobrynin offered to work with the U.S. to resolve regional conflicts, including Afghanistan. Said he: "We don't believe there is no solution to Afghanistan." The trouble is that Moscow would define the problem as "continued intervention from Pakistan." But once that matter is solved, "the problem is solved," Dobrynin contended, and the Soviets could then "take our troops home...
...last U.S. Ambassador to Saigon, Martin had just eleven minutes to pack and evacuate the embassy as South Viet Nam neared its final collapse. Martin left behind family portraits and mementos of more than two decades in the Foreign Service, but he did manage to salvage top-secret documents from the embassy. In 1978 the FBI investigated his handling of the files, but the Justice Department later decided not to prosecute. Martin, 72, has retired to Winston-Salem, N.C. He does not believe the war had to end in such a disastrous manner. "Had President Nixon served out his term...
While National Security Adviser to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, Bundy was an early, forceful advocate for U.S. military assistance to South Viet Nam. Now he is closer to the antiwar activists who fought him. Along with McNamara, former Ambassador to Moscow George F. Kennan and Gerard Smith, chief negotiator of the SALT I treaty, Bundy recently urged the U.S. and NATO to adopt a no-first-strike policy toward nuclear weapons, and has said that President Reagan's Star Wars proposal does not "respect reality." Head of the Ford Foundation from 1966 to 1979, Bundy, 66, is now a history...
House Speaker Tip O'Neill asked Mike Mansfield, the former Senate majority leader now serving as U.S. Ambassador to Tokyo, to deliver a blunt message to the Japanese: "They better make some concessions or they're in trouble." Some legislators grew positively bellicose. "We are in a war," declared Democratic Congressman Beryl Anthony of Arkansas. "After this passes we're going to have to load the gun and put some real bullets in it." Editorialized the New York Times: "The Japan-bashers are on the march...