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While the Administration remained divided over Star Wars, four former U.S. officials assailed the idea in Foreign Affairs, the U.S. quarterly. The critics were former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara, onetime National Security Adviser McGeorge Bundy, ex-Arms Negotiator Gerard Smith and George F. Kennan, Ambassador to the Soviet Union in 1952. They argued that Star Wars does not "respect reality," chiefly because a leakproof defense is impossible and the attempt to create one could nullify Reagan's effort at reaching an agreement on arms control...
...officials found out about the plot only after the Ladispoli roundup. In gratitude for the deft police work, Ambassador Maxwell Rabb paid a 40-minute call on Rome's chief of police, Marcello Monarca. Said Rabb: "Your country has again demonstrated that it is in the vanguard of the fight against subversive and terrorist elements that stain the world with blood...
...industry. In response to a U.S.-Colombian move to extradite 78 Colombian dealers to face charges in the U.S., unnamed drug barons three weeks ago threatened to kill five Americans for every Colombian extradited. Colombian police believe that the prime target of last week's attack was U.S. Ambassador Lewis Tambs, who is in the habit of leaving the embassy each day at about the time the bomb exploded. Six months earlier, a car laden with explosives blew up prematurely outside his official residence...
...behalf of Washington, U.S. Ambassador John Gavin sent a check for $25,000, adding praise for "the generosity of individual Mexicans toward their countrymen." The compliment was well earned. On the morning of the explosions, neighbors in the surrounding community of Tlalnepantla took up a collection and then brought to San Juan Ixhuatepec boxes of crackers, canned vegetables and medicines. Next day they established themselves just outside the military cordon and distributed supplies to anyone who asked for them. By Wednesday there was such a flood of food and clothing that the radio called for a halt...
...bestseller list for 24 weeks. Historian Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie compared the significance of Revel's warnings about the Soviet Union to the alarms sounded by Demosthenes about the perils facing Athenian democracy. U.S. neoconservatives lauded publication of a condensation in the monthly Commentary last June; U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Jeane Kirkpatrick quoted from the work in her speech to the Republican National Convention...