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...quintessential kiss-up, kick-down sort of guy." CARL FORD JR., former U.S. State Department intelligence chief, testifying in Senate hearings about the management style of John Bolton, nominee for U.S. ambassador to the United Nations...
...session was hardly a breakthrough, but the outcome, a slight easing of East-West tensions, was nonetheless welcome. When Secretary of State George Shultz emerged last week from the red brick residence of the U.S. Ambassador to Finland overlooking Helsinki harbor, walking in affable fashion alongside him was a smiling newcomer to the game of superpower politics, Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze, 57, appointed only a month ago. The two men paused briefly to exchange chitchat with the help of interpreters and to pose for eager photographers. Later Shultz declared that three hours of private talks with his Soviet counterpart...
...most lectern mikes only after her staff sets up a 3-in. stand dubbed the Boxer box. But she is standing out in the Senate, along with Ted Kennedy, as one of Congress's most outspoken liberals. After her tough questioning last week of Bush's nominee for U.N. ambassador, John Bolton, she spoke with TIME's Perry Bacon...
WHAT CONCERNS YOU MOST ABOUT JOHN BOLTON AS AMBASSADOR...
Making him U.N. ambassador would be like putting Phyllis Schlafly in charge of a Planned Parenthood clinic. It's just not a match. His attitude toward the U.N.--he's despised it all his life. It makes no sense...