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...twelve-day tour of the American heartland; aside from Gromyko, no Soviet minister has visited the U.S. since 1979. Last week Pop Singer John Denver embarked on a concert tour of the Soviet Union, the first by an American entertainer in years. When Denver appeared at the U.S. Ambassador's Thanksgiving dinner in Moscow and sang We 're All in This Together, one Soviet guest, Foreign Ministry Official Alexander Bessmertnykh, sang right along...
Without notifying the President in advance, Kirkpatrick announced her plans last week to step out of public life. "I am absolutely not being coy about it," she said. "I have an intention and that is my intention." Well, perhaps. But only a couple of hours later the U.N. Ambassador ordered a wire-service reporter dressed down for making her decision sound irrevocable in his story, and indeed she did not specifically rule out taking another post in the Reagan Administration. Many Washington insiders concluded that Kirkpatrick was engaged in calculated job jockeying. Said an Administration official...
...complex of questions concerning nuclear and space weapons." President Reagan's national security adviser, Robert C. McFarlane, says the United States is prepared to be "flexible and constructive" in these talks. The head of the Soviets' American Department is caught singing. "We're all in this together" at the ambassador's house on Thanksgiving...
...same fractiousness is evident in the Administration's solutions for Central America. Hard-liners in Washington, including CIA Director William Casey and U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick, seem to believe that in the long run it is impossible to deal with the Sandinistas. They would prefer to see the Managua regime ousted from power, although any action by the U.S. toward that end is expressly forbidden by a 1982 resolution of Congress. More moderate officials, including Shultz, believe that diplomacy can play a role in curbing Nicaragua's radical tendencies. In their view, the U.S. must show that...
...charge that he had concealed crucial information from President Johnson and the Joint Chiefs, Westmoreland pointed out that he did not report directly to them; his "bosses" were Admiral Ulysses S. Grant Sharp, the commander of U.S. armed forces in the Pacific, and Ellsworth Bunker, the U.S. Ambassador to South Viet Nam. Moreover, Westmoreland said that on several occasions he had discussed with Admiral Sharp the disagreement among intelligence sources over the significance of the nonuniformed cadre...