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Some thought that the real cause of death was Sirhan Sirhan. David was more sensitive and inward than most other Kennedy males. He did not display quite the same sharp, aggressive self-confidence that came down the line to sons and grandsons from Ambassador Joseph Kennedy. David tended to be a loner. Bobby Kennedy, perhaps because he was a third son himself and knew the difficulties of struggling along in the middle of the pack in a large family, paid special attention to David. He gave him more of his time. He often brought David to his Senate office...
That night, only hours later, Bobby Kennedy was giving his victory speech in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. David Kennedy was sitting up late, alone in his hotel room, watching. He was doubtless in a daze of pride and gratitude and excitement. The television cameras followed Bobby Kennedy off the platform and back through the hotel kitchen toward an elevator. As David watched on TV, Sirhan Sirhan shot his father in the head. The cameras focused interminably on the chaos, on the body and the head lying in a pool of blood. In the confusion, no one came...
...puzzled that you should question whether the U.S. Government will accept "a onetime terrorist" as ambassador from Nicaragua. The Reagan Administration employs terrorists who regularly cross from Honduras to Nicaragua to try their hand at terrorism. Why should we object to having a former practitioner of the art as Nicaragua's ambassador...
...connections by hiring people on the basis of whom they know. "I only want the stars," he says. It is a policy that gets him publicity, not always welcome. Four months ago, Gray hired Alejandro Orfila, the Secretary-General of the Organization of American States and former Argentine Ambassador to the U.S., at $25,000 a month. At the time Orfila, who is an accomplished Washington socializer, was still working for the O.A.S. and collecting his $88,000-a-year salary. He continued working as both a diplomat and a member of Gray & Co. until his resignation from the O.A.S...
...offices in Peking; this year trade between the U.S. and China will amount to $5.5 billion, a fiftyfold increase since 1972. Ten years ago, almost no Chinese were allowed to go overseas; today there are 10,000 students in the U.S. alone. Fifteen years ago, China kept only one ambassador abroad (in Cairo); today, with representation in 128 countries, China has become one of the world's most diplomatically active nations. Proclaimed Premier Zhao Ziyang during his triumphant tour of the U.S. in January: "China has opened its door and will never close it again...