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When Reagan did look ahead, he got in trouble. He almost certainly surprised, and probably dismayed, the State Department and his ambassador in the Philippines when he suggested he would continue to support Ferdinand Marcos because the opposition to him is a "large Communist movement." In fact, the anti-Marcos opposition includes many certifiably democratic elements, who will be outraged by the President's remark...
...noted a Daily Mirror editorial, "may have been planted by an Irish terrorist, but the fingerprints upon it were American." Addressing the American Chamber of Commerce in London, Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe warned the "misguided minority of Irish Americans [that] they are supporting and promoting terrorism." Subsequently, U.S. Ambassador to Britain Charles H. Price promised to ask American law-enforcement agencies to take every possible action against NORAID. He pointed out, though, that NORAID cannot be outlawed because it is protected by the U.S. Constitution...
...lokenism. Mondale attempted to make a virtue out of a Accessity by naming an inexperienced Congresswoman to the ticket, Recently the country has learned that Geraldine Ferrane has student after skeleton in her ethical closet, Vice President Bush, in stark contrast, boasts perhaps the most complete resume--including ambassador to China and CIA director-among public servants. The problems in Ferraro's background no doubt surprised Mondale as much they did the rest of the country, and they illustrate incptitude and amateur nature of his campaign...
After the initial attack, Iraqi Ambassador to Great Britain Wahbi Abdul-Razza al Qaraghuli was summoned to the Foreign Office and rebuked by British Assistant Under Secretary of State for Middle East Affairs Stephen Egerton. Iraq made no official reply, but Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz asked a gathering at the Foreign Policy Association in New York: "Why do they complain that we have killed their boys? Why did they send their boys in the first place...
Seifert heard the news of the award in Prague's Vinohrady Hospital, where he had been admitted the previous week for treatment of a heart ailment and diabetes. Swedish Ambassador Olof Skoglund came to his bedside and presented him with the academy's statement honoring him "for his poetry, which, endowed with freshness, sensuality and rich inventiveness, provides a liberating image of the indomitable spirit and versatility of man." To the press afterward, Skoglund added, "He was overwhelmed. But I could see he was very tired...