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...increasing amounts of military aid for your country. The Congressmen are worried about human rights excesses and the actions of rightist death squads in particular. You begin to think that maybe you should crack down on the death squads in order for aid to continue, particularly when the U.S. ambassador. Thomas R. Pickering, publicly criticizes the recent increase in death squad killings. After all, President Reagan has been your most effective advocate for dealing with Congress, so when one of his appointees takes you to task...
...later became famous as "the walk in the woods." At the end of the talk, Kvitsinsky said he was not sure he would find the Kremlin receptive to the package. He told Nitze he would let him know through a colleague at the Soviet embassy in Washington, one of Ambassador...
...over Nicaragua's anxiety. The successful invasion of the flyspeck island of Grenada, they insisted, provided no precedent for an offensive against Nicaragua's well-armed and well-trained combined regular army and militia force of 100,000. "The fears of the government are exaggerated," insisted U.S. Ambassador Anthony Quainton in Managua. "You have to understand that Grenada and Nicaragua are completely different countries and situations." Said a State Department official in Washington: "It's a terrible idea. It's impractical and impolitic. It's also absolutely unnecessary...
University professor Edwin O. Reischauer then the American ambassador to Japan, received the news at three or four in the morning. Two hours later he was on Japanese television, "reassuring the Japanese people that nothing had changed. It was something mysterious. I think, that the whole world had this feeling of enthusiasm for this young American leader," says Reischauer...
...States and Russia marked the anniversary last week with a formal dinner and statements from both sides. Russian comments were marked by nostalgic retrospective. They praised an America of punctual businessmen that liberated Russia from the Germans. The United States responded with a formal dinner in which the Soviet ambassador, Anatoly F. Dobrynin, and four former ambassadors to the Soviet Union vied with each other for more polite messages of hopelessness. The Soviet ambassador's comments were off the record to the press...