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...safety, he said, and preferred to proceed through normal immigration channels. After a heated discussion, the guards slammed Kim into an elevator and took him into custody. Several protesting Americans were shoved and punched. Among them: Democratic Congressmen Edward Feighan of Ohio and Thomas Foglietta of Pennsylvania, and Patt Derian, Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights in the Carter Administration. Said Foglietta: "It was a disgraceful exhibition of force and brutality...
...Americans who were mistreated at the airport were outraged. Derian called on Reagan to cancel the Chun visit. The State Department promptly lodged a protest with Seoul, but indicated that the Reagan-Chun meeting would go ahead "as scheduled...
...comment on what he called a "sideshow," a devilish reference to William Shawcross's book of that name highly critical of Kissinger. Carter once flung a rubber chicken at one particularly querulous reporter. A gregarious partygoer who loves to sing and dance, Carter last year married Patricia Derian, 50, Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights, after divorcing his wife of 21 years...
...drinking age should be even higher. Linda Derian of Watertown said yesterday. The most important factor in assessing the effectiveness of the higher legal age is whether it reduces automobile accidents among teenagers, she added...
Virtually every aid proposal within the State Department is routed through a newly created Bureau of Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs. That unit is headed by Assistant Secretary of State Patricia Derian, 49, a combative and articulate civil rights activist from Mississippi. Derian has traveled to 15 countries in Asia, Latin America, Africa and Europe to explain Administration policy and inspect local conditions. She and eight deputies make sure that the human rights performance of every would-be recipient of U.S. aid is taken into account before a grant, loan or sale is approved...