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Bickering continued over construction details until a final protocol was signed in 1977. Jimmy Carter's CIA director, Stansfield Turner, wanted the Moscow embassy to be built only by U.S. citizens who would be subject to lie- detector tests upon their return home. Carter approved the idea, says Turner, but the departments of State and Defense blocked the plan. "I gave them money out of the CIA budget for security checks and polygraphs," says he, "and they never properly used it." Turner believes the U.S. has a "cultural problem" with Soviet espionage. "Americans just can't get it through their...
...various military commanders. For a nation that mistakenly assumes only the President's finger is ever on the button, this little-known fact will come as a disconcerting discovery. In his first novel, State Scarlet (Putnam; $18.95), David Aaron, a top staffer at the National Security Council during the Carter Administration, uses fiction to show how the nation's command, control and communications system, known as C 3, could spin out of control during a crisis...
...Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir bitterly accusing Shimon Peres, his own Foreign Minister, of displaying a "peace-at-any-price" mentality for endorsing such a parley. Every U.S. Administration since the mid-1970s has opposed the idea, largely because it would mean participation by the Soviet Union. Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan were all deeply worried that this would give the Kremlin an irresistible opportunity not only to disrupt the quest for peace but also to play a considerably larger role in the region, something that Moscow has long been seeking to do. Those remain valid and serious concerns...
...primary goals of the Carter Center of Emory University in Atlanta is to explore every possibility for peace in the Middle East. The center sponsors conferences, personal visits and scholarly analyses of issues, and also offers representatives of the disputing parties the chance to meet in a nongovernmental and academic environment to discuss their differences in a constructive manner. My most recent visits with Middle East leaders were further steps in these continuing efforts...
Over the years Pippert has taken time out from the daily reporting game he received a Master's degree in Old Testament studies on one sabbatical, garnered a Congressional fellowship during another and produced a book on "The Spiritual Journey of Jimmy Carter" in the course of a third leave of absence...