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...There are two ways you can tell when a man is lying," said Charles Bohlen, a respected former U.S. Ambassador to Moscow. "One is when he says he can drink champagne all night and not get drunk. The other is when he says he understands Russians...
Today's Russian specialists are too modest to claim an expertise Bohlen knew is impossible, but that hasn't stopped the Clinton Administration from crafting a Russia-centric foreign policy that seriously shortchanges other vital interests. To Secretary of State Warren Christopher, it's all perfectly clear: "Helping democracy prevail in Russia," he says, "remains the wisest and least expensive investment that we can make in American security." At the same time, however, almost everyone involved with America's Russia policy, including Christopher, admits the West can affect events there only at the margin. That being so, one would expect...
Hopes for a compromise lifted briefly in late March when the head of the American delegation, Assistant Secretary of State Curtis Bohlen, announced that the U.S. had reversed itself and accepted the idea that "new and additional financial resources" would be needed to pay for environmental action in poor countries. But Bohlen would not say how much the U.S. might be willing to pledge...
Critics assailed Yalta as a sellout. Even George Kennan, then a top State Department official, denounced the West's refusal "to name any limit for Russian expansion and Russian responsibilities." But Charles Bohlen, assistant to the Secretary of State and one of the designers of the deal, called such criticism naive. Neither Britain nor the U.S. had any way to coerce Stalin, he argued, and "either our pals intend to limit themselves or they...
...move came just four days after a consortium of conservation groups, including the World Wildlife Fund and Wildlife Conservation International, called for that kind of action, and it made the U.S. the first nation to forbid imports of both raw and finished ivory. The ban, says Bohlen, "sends a very clear message to the ivory poachers that the game is over...