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Voters who go through the routine procedure of changing their party registrations do not ordinarily get gala receptions thrown in their honor or receive the personal congratulations of just about every bigwig in their new political tribe. But then Jeane Kirkpatrick is no ordinary voter. When the departing U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations confided that she was severing a lifelong affiliation with the Democratic Party and planning to register as a Republican, G.O.P. officials gleefully scheduled a celebration bash for April 3 and sent out invitations decorated with a drawing of a dancing elephant. Just about every ranking Republican...
Questions were also raised about the involvement in the E.S.M. failure of Marvin Warner, Home State's owner and a U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland during Jimmy Carter's presidency. Warner, a major investor in the Florida firm and an owner of the Birmingham Stallions of the U.S. Football League, liquidated his own holdings in E.S.M. in January. Yet he insists, "I am one of the biggest victims." Last week Warner resigned from his powerful position as chairman of the Ohio Building Authority in the wake of the Home State closing...
Since Enrique Camarena Salazar, an agent of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, was kidnaped last month in Mexico and subsequently murdered, presumably by narcotics dealers, U.S. officials have suspected the complicity of corrupt Mexican police. Last week John Gavin, the U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, announced that at least two of the four kidnapers who hustled Camarena into a car in Guadalajara a month before his body was found were, in fact, policemen of the Mexican state of Jalisco. They had been arrested by Mexican federal authorities and had confessed...
...career as an agronomist and ended up as a master of the diplomatic arts. Another is a former shipyard engineer with a reputation for rudeness and arrogance. A third is a tough fighter against corruption who once reportedly fell into disfavor and was sent packing to Cuba as Ambassador. And the fourth is a former KGB chief from the Muslim south. This is the quartet of crucial players who will determine how smoothly and how quickly Mikhail Gorbachev will be able to accumulate power...
...premier of the Russian Republic. Like Gorbachev, he was a protege of Andropov, who apparently tabbed Vorotnikov to clean up corruption. Vorotnikov had conducted an earlier anticorruption drive with such fervor that he seemingly incurred the wrath of powerful enemies and was shipped off to Cuba as Soviet Ambassador from 1979 to 1982. But his star has ascended steadily since...