Word: cfia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Following a 31-year career in one of the world's most volatile regions, Mordechai Gazit, former director general of the Israeli Ministry for Foreign Affairs, returned to the more sedate life of scholarship this year as a fellow at the Center for International Affairs (CfIA...
Gazit is excited about his work at the CfIA, but his past is still very much a part of his life. "I belong to the generation of the Israeli War for Independence," he says...
Speaking at the Center for International Affairs (CFIA), he criticized the "incoherence" of U.S. foreign policy, and said "world order theorists" in charge of the State Department are guilty of "separating diplomacy from military force...
...friends still call him "senator" although he lost the title with the advent of martial law. Aquino relishes his freedom after years of confinement--he can hardly wait for the next CfIA colloquium or seminar or class. His office has an eerily empty quality, immaculately clean with none of the characteristic academic bric-a-brac littering his desk. His one luxury in the spartan setting is a little tea kettle. He eagerly keeps track of world events, and asks most of his visitors if they think prominent South Korean dissident Kim Dae-Jung "will swing"--a euphemism which even seeps...
...long hours in a cell were spent reading voraciously--everything "except articles on the Philippines, they were cut out." He devoured books by the CfIA personnel he has now met as well as Harold Robbins novels. "You can only read the heavy stuff for so long," he says. During that time Aquino came to the conclusion that "the only difference between the U.S. and the Soviet Union is America's moral anger--take away the moral anger, and you have two symmetrical superpowers." He says he feels no bitterness--he will respond to Marcos if the dictator is "sincere...