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...years as U.S. Ambassador to France, Evan G. Galbraith has achieved something of a reputation for making undiplomatic remarks about his hosts. Last week the former banker and Reaganite turned his scorn on the State Department. After announcing that he would resign in July, Galbraith told the New York Times that career diplomats are overly timid "liberals." Said he: "There's something about the foreign service that takes the guts out of people. The tendency is to avoid confronting an issue." Galbraith's broadside incensed Secretary of State George Shultz, who declared, "Somebody ought to tie his tongue...
Galbraith retorted that his remarks had been quoted out of context and did not reflect his view of foreign service officers. He called them "highly dedicated, competent and often courageous." The feeling in Washington, however, was that this self-described political ambassador had overstayed his welcome. "They're supposed to be ambassadors for all of us," said a State Department official, "not just one wing of the Republican Party...
...Washington's most effective weapon is still its most direct one: cutting off drugs at the source. "The closer you are to where it comes from," explains Ambassador Corr in Bolivia, "the more bang you get for your buck. By the time it gets to East St. Louis or Champaign, Ill., it's all over the place." U.S.-backed programs of coca eradication have enjoyed some measure of success: last fall in "Operation Federico" in Brazil, 9 million epadu plants were burned while workers in Peru slashed down more than 5,000 acres, three times more than...
...Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which investigates extremist groups, says that Ayran Nations and the Klan have set up computer networks that can be reached through telephone numbers in Idaho, Texas and North Carolina. The computer system was established by Louis Beam, a Texas Klan leader and the Aryan Nations' "ambassador-at-larg e." It provides anti- Semitic and racist reading for hackers, as well as an "enemies" list of organizations like the A.D.L...
...intention to go back to academe, she rushed from the Oval Office declaring she had to return to New York and bolster Chad as it went into verbal battle with villainous Libya. In the end, of course, her very virtuosity kept her from the pinnacles of power. Now Ambassador-at- Large Vernon Walters, a world troubleshooter for six Presidents, is likely to take...