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Before returning to Washington last week for consultations about the safety of Americans in Mexico, U.S. Ambassador John Gavin met for 40 minutes with TIME's Mexico City bureau chief Harry Kelly. Excerpts from the interview...
...private, U.S. officials complained that Mexico was not doing enough in the hunt for Camarena. From Washington, Attorney General William French Smith sent a cable of complaint to Mexican authorities, expressing "frustration and disappointment" at the pace of the investigation. Other messages flew back and forth between Ambassador Gavin and Mexican officials, including President de la Madrid. Said DEA Assistant Administrator Frank Monastero: "Some elements among the Mexican authorities have been very late in responding to leads we've developed, and if they have good reason, we don't know what...
...Ambassador Richard ("Dixie") Walker, a political appointee, defended his embassy's role in the event. He said that the mission had worked out arrival details with the Seoul government but that the arrangement "was not honored." The embassy, he said, had done "much more than it usually does to assist American citizens because we knew this was an event with potential for serious trouble...
...Baloney." Said White: "We were attacked by a flying wedge of plainclothes goons." Added another member of the group, Frances ("Sissy") Farenthold, Texas attorney and onetime gubernatorial candidate: "We were being as careful as we could because the whole point was to get Kim safely back home." As for Ambassador Walker, she snapped, "He really couldn't have cared less what happened...
...made his final decision until the start of the press conference. But the press agency TASS began reporting his action even before he spoke, and suspicion mounted that the Soviets had acted to protect their large investment in a status symbol they regard as a more suitable cultural ambassador at large than the youthful, half-Armenian, half-Jewish Kasparov. As David Spanier, British author of Total Chess, put it, Karpov is the ideal Soviet champion, "a very Russian Russian who follows the party line...