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...government found itself at the center of the controversy -- because Rushdie is a British citizen and because its Tehran embassy, reopened less than three months ago after being closed for eight years, had been attacked by an angry mob earlier last week. The Foreign Office summoned Iran's lone diplomat in Britain and told him that Khomeini's threat was "totally unacceptable," demanded special protection for its embassy, and disclosed that London was "freezing" its plan to strengthen diplomatic ties with the Islamic state...
...Secretary of State James Baker is renowned for keeping his boss out of deep doo-doo and never stepping into any himself. But Baker's surefootedness was notably lacking last week. In his first frantic foreign foray as the nation's top diplomat, the up-close-and-personal touch that has served Baker so well with Congress and the press did not play very well. And a new accord by five Central American Presidents caught the Secretary uncharacteristically off- stride...
Back in Washington, the revolving door was buffeting Baker's nominee for Deputy Secretary of State, Lawrence Eagleburger, a former high-ranking diplomat who most recently was the $200,000-a-year president of Kissinger Associates. The firm's global list of clients (including Britain's Midland Bank, South Korea's vast Daewoo Group and Hunt Oil projects in the Middle East) is so extensive that he may have to cross off entire continents to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest. Eagleburger, who would be in charge when Baker is out of the country, proposes to solve...
...left open the possibility of expelling Iran's lone diplomat in London, where Rushdie lives...
...role that ex-King Zahir Shah should play in the rebuilding of war-torn Afghanistan to the composition of the shura itself, some spectators had the eerie feeling of watching a car accident taking place in slow motion. "This is the last chance for Kabul," says a Western diplomat based in Islamabad. "If it collapses, Afghanistan will collapse into fratricidal bloodshed...