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Some members of the Reagan Administration find the Soviets equally difficult to deal with. U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Jeane Kirkpatrick sounded that theme in her address last week before the Republican National Convention. Reagan's 1980 election victory, she said, marked the end of a "dismal period of retreat and decline," in which the Soviets had built up their arsenal and expanded their global influence. Blasting critics of Reagan policy, Kirkpatrick recited a litany of Soviet actions from the 1979 invasion of Afghanistan to the downing of Korean Air Lines Flight 007 a year ago this week...
Indeed it is. Some Republican strategists wonder whether Bush is up to battling an energizing female foe under full media glare. Despite his impressive resume (former U.N. Ambassador, CIA director, two-term Congressman, envoy to China), they fret that he is not a "proven vote getter." In the past he has lost two Senate races...
...rifts among Lebanon's combative factions. That assessment was markedly different from what U.S. officials were saying about the regime of Syrian President Hafez Assad as recently as two months ago, when 261 U.S. Marines were still deployed in Lebanon. But "times have changed," noted Murphy, a former Ambassador to Damascus. Syria, he explained, had pursued a policy of confrontation with the U.S. and Israel as long as its aim was to torpedo the Lebanese-Israeli security agreement. Once that had been achieved, Syria apparently realized that it was in its interest to shift tactics and begin to search...
...about their opinion of the Marxist-led Sandinista government. "Democracy, yes! Communism, no!" they chanted. "With Arturo in the seat there'll be plenty to eat. Arturo is the future." The small but vocal crowd had turned out to welcome Arturo Cruz, 60, a former junta member and Ambassador to Washington, who was back home from self-imposed exile in the U.S. to run as an opposition candidate in the Nicaraguan elections scheduled for Nov. 4. But the jubilation was short-lived. No sooner had Cruz tossed his hat into the ring than he snatched it back again...
...tall, bespectacled young Soviet diplomat drew world attention last February as a grieving figure alongside his father's flower-decked bier. Last week Greek officials announced that Igor Andropov, 38, son of the late Soviet leader, had been named Ambassador to Athens...