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...should be used for. The art of the politician, the public educator, whatever we call leadership, I think it's that--I hate the word "leadership," because it's a catch-all for everything. But let's go on with "public educator": to build, to guide, direct, to channel, to chart the course. You can argue about the direction and how we get there, but at least have it clearly defined, and keep at it, and persuade. Those are great things; that's what a president...
...intense effort to free the hostages had taken place through what diplomats call "back channels," indirect and discreet means of communication between governments that appear barely on speaking terms. Since Iranian militants seized the U.S. embassy, a number of back-channel messages have flowed between the Iranian and U.S. governments. Most often the messengers have been Swiss diplomats. But last week a flood of light on the back channels disclosed the activities of a collection of surprising messengers: an Argentine fixer, a leftist French lawyer, and White House Chief of Staff Hamilton Jordan. Disguised as a middle-aged man, with...
...telling him that Washington had not cleared it. Ghotbzadeh in turn delivered the document to Khomeini. According to one version of events in Tehran, the artful Foreign Minister decided to keep the Villalón connection a secret and told Khomeini that the message had come through the Swiss channel. Another version is that the conduit from Villalón to Ghotbzadeh was in fact the Swiss...
...because he believed they were merely a cover-up for continued repression. He also wrote to President Carter, imploring him not to send proposed U.S. military aid of, $5.7 million to the junta. "We are fed up with weapons and bullets," he explained. He urged the U.S. instead to "channel the aid to feed thousands of our people." The archbishop also led a campaign to locate the missing victims of arrests, and every Sunday read a roll call of the week's dead. Salvadorans came from all over to plead for help, clutching photographs of relatives who had disappeared...
...problem that bothers American career diplomats is what they call "back channeling"?that is, top officials circumventing ambassadors in ways that undercut their relationship with the capitals to which they have been appointed. A classic case in point: key negotiations with the U.S.S.R. in the Nixon, Ford and Carter Administrations have usually been carried out by Secretaries of State directly with longtime Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin. Former Ambassador to Moscow Malcolm Toon, a career diplomat for 33 years, thinks this exclusive use of the "Washington channel" is all wrong. Says Toon: "As I told Vance a couple of times...