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...Soviets' occupation of Afghanistan and their downing of a Korean passenger jet, the U.S. was the only major country singled out for criticism by name in the last session (in resolutions criticizing Washington's ties with Israel and South Africa). Such American isolation is hardly new, says Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick. "The pattern of what might be called the U.S. in the minority," Kirkpatrick notes, "has persisted now for about two decades...
When I remind him of these accusations, he becomes furious: "The death squads are people like you, like [former] U.S. Ambassador Robert White. They are everyone who helps block economic aid that would save the displaced from dying of hunger." According to D'Aubuisson, the death squads do not exist. What about the 1,259 assassinations that, according to the archbishopric, the death squads carried out in 1983? "Those are, perhaps, Salvadoran Communists who died in Nicaragua fighting against Somoza, and whose names are now exploited by disinformation campaigns...
...precipitous transfer" of the embassy would be "damaging to the cause of peace." Former State Department Middle East Expert Harold Saunders told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that "the final status of Jerusalem must be negotiated by the parties with interests there, not imposed unilaterally by conquest." U.S. Ambassador to Cairo Nicholas Veliotes told a group of Senators that he hoped they would give him some warning before they passed the Jerusalem bill so he would have enough time to move himself and his staff out of town before the riots started. It is not inconceivable that should the bill...
...part, the new confidence seems to stem from victories by Prime Minister Botha over hardliners, including a constitutional reform that will give a measure of legislative power to Indians and mixed-race citizens. South Africa, says Ambassador to Washington Brand Fourie, may be embarking on "a new era of realism...
EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE Ludlum does get fired up. The scene in Bonn when Converse is charged with killing the U.S. ambassador to Germany is pretty good stuff. But for every interesting scene there are two or three with hackneyed, trite, cliched texts. From going into a whorehouse just to sleep and then bribing the prostitute (who we are told has children she takes to dance classes and school--read heart of gold) to get him an escape car, or to detailing the sexual habits of some of the generals, the "plot twists" are just unbelievable...