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Vatican Exchange In attempting to justify President Reagan's nomination of an Ambassador to the Holy See [Jan. 23], some people argue that an exchange with the Vatican is no more objectionable than the diplomatic recognition we extend to the Soviet Union. However, there is a considerable difference. The Roman Catholic Church has 50 million adherents in the U.S. In certain international situations, the Ambassador from the Vatican could make demands sub rosa on the President. What other diplomatic representative could threaten to invoke the support of 50 million Americans...
...that when the U.S. sends an Ambassador to the Vatican, the country is in an uproar over the "separation of church and state," yet when the Rev. Jesse Jackson runs for the presidency, nobody says a word...
...talks. Such a step would allow the Soviets to slide around their vow not to resume INF talks as long as the U.S. was deploying Pershing II missiles in Western Europe. An even more promising feeler came from an unnamed "high-ranking Soviet official," widely assumed to be Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin, who suggested to the Boston Globe that the two powers seek a quick "interim agreement" on the less controversial elements of arms control while postponing for the moment the many tougher far-reaching questions. Meanwhile, there were countercharges that both sides were violating existing treaties. Two weeks...
Nevertheless, this is a time of transition in the Kremlin and a time when American policy and overtures can make a difference. American policy that is, not blustering. As former Ambassador to the U.S.S.R. Averell W. Harriman noted last week, this is "a time for caution;" the Soviet leaders will be jockeying amongst each other for position and in the next week or so, the Kremlin will have a new leader. The choices range from younger, more worldly candidates like Mikhail Gorbaschev to the more conservative Konstantin Chernenko and Grigory V. Romanov, but speculation also includes the hawkish Defense Minister...
...appears to have been-small cough behind back of the hand-a family affair. In the pre-Reagan-Thatcher days, Britain's Ambassador to the U.S., Peter Jay, and his wife Margaret were the toast of the New York-Washington social circuit. Then came Mrs. Jay's more or less public affair with Watergate Heavyweight Carl Bernstein, subsequently chronicled with gusto by his former wife Nora Ephron, 42, in the bestselling Heartburn. Now it develops that while Ephron was turning to a novel to get satisfaction, Jay was turning elsewhere. Last week, Jane Tustian, 33, live-in nanny...