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...that supremacy. Georgi Arbatov, one of Moscow's chief experts on U.S. affairs, charges that "the Reagan Administration returned to Geneva not to find an agreement but to relieve the pressure [from the peace movement] and, frankly, to fool the people." As to Reagan's rhetoric, Anatoli Dobrynin, Soviet Ambassador to the U.S., says: "Words are deeds...
...government of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, which insisted that the encounter in Cairo was a breach of the spirit of Camp David. In a frosty, hour-long meeting with Undersecretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger and Richard Murphy, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, Israel's Ambassador to Washington, Meir Rosenne, protested that Camp David enjoined the Egyptians from encouraging terrorism and thus from dealing with the likes of Arafat. Eagleburger replied that the U.S. saw the rapprochement as an opportunity to use Egyptian influence toward getting Arafat and Hussein to cooperate in future peace negotiations...
Arafat's problems came up in an unexpected venue when U.S.S.R. Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko held a detailed discussion on the Middle East with Arthur Hartman, the U.S. Ambassador to Moscow. Gromyko spoke with regret about Arafat's predicament; the P.L.O., he said, was gradually moving toward a more moderate position, with the balance shifting toward those who acknowledge Israel's right to exist. Much of the talk touched on the Soviet Union's quest to be directly involved in future Middle East negotiations. "Why do you Americans feel you have a right to play...
...damage. However, several organizations, including the National Council of Churches, have expressed their dismay. "I'm appalled," says President James Draper of the Southern Baptist Convention, the nation's largest Protestant group. More adverse publicity for the Administration could be generated by Senate confirmation of the first Ambassador to the Vatican. He is likely to be Reagan's current personal representative, William Wilson, 69, a Catholic convert, California businessman and Reagan intimate...
...Papal States from 1797 to 1867, when, with the impending collapse of the Pope's regime, the U.S. legation was closed down. There matters stood until two days before Christmas, 1939, when Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed his personal representative to the Holy See. (By not sending an ambassador, F.D.R. avoided Senate confirmation and the inevitable Protestant uproar.) There was no regular diplomatic contact following President Truman's debacle of 1951 until 1970, when President Nixon restored the post of personal representative, which has no diplomatic status...