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...figures are a meaningless numbers game, had been expected to leave after this year's spending battles are resolved, and he will almost certainly go now that Regan is in a position to boss him around. While the recent vacancies at the White House conceivably could give United Nations Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick a shot at becoming Reagan's in-house foreign policy adviser, insiders doubt that such a strong personality could coexist with Regan. Predicts one White House aide: "If somebody like Kirkpatrick is brought in here and tries to carve out an empire of her own, she'll find...
...apologize to those in the Harvard African Students Association who complained that we had "invited too many Afro-Americans and too few Africans" to the Bishop Tutu Luncheon and the Ambassador's dinner. At the same time we disagree with those who maintain that African students were more entitled to join the Bishop at the luncheon because he too is an African. The Bishop is a world leader who belongs to everyone, and we invited several African students to join other groups in celebrating the significance of this life...
...Administration may also soon lose United Nations Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick. Long frustrated in her attempts to win a more powerful niche in Washington's foreign policy hierarchy, Kirkpatrick in late November said she would resign when the 1984 U.N. session ended. She has since agreed to remain until March. The President greatly respects the sometimes cantankerous Kirkpatrick and is scheduled to talk to her about job prospects after the Inauguration. Her desire to become a top adviser in the White House, however, seems unlikely to be fulfilled...
...point to praise U.S. entrepreneurial dynamism. But the most enthusiastically pro-American politicians, according to polls, are the Gaullists. Although they were hostile to the U.S. in the '60s and early '70s, Gaullists are front and center among the politicians who now scramble to be photographed with U.S. Ambassador Evan Galbraith. Only the Communists, whose political power is shrinking, remain implacably critical of everything American...
...week's end the Soviet Union shed light on the incident. The Soviet ) Ambassador in Helsinki paid a call on the Finnish Foreign Minister to acknowledge that, "in connection with target shooting in the Barents Sea," a target drone "could have strayed off course and violated Finnish airspace." Almost simultaneously, the Soviet Ambassador in Oslo delivered a similar message to the Norwegian Foreign Ministry...