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...most profound differences between Reagan and Eisenhower spring from contrasts in their backgrounds and experience. Eisenhower had orchestrated the largest and most complex military operation in history-the retaking of Western Europe. In that job, he functioned as supreme diplomat as well as soldier. Ike's expertise in foreign policy was thorough, practiced and instinctive. He dealt with men like Churchill on an equal basis. Reagan has worked as an actor and served a creditable eight years as Governor of the nation's most populous state. That experience may exceed Jimmy Carter's when he arrived...
...regime also took steps against "foreign espionage"-and for once this did not refer to the 53 Americans held hostage since November. Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh announced the expulsion of a high-ranking Soviet diplomat accused of spying. He then ordered Moscow to reduce its diplomatic staff in Iran sharply and announced the closing of the Iranian consulate in Leningrad...
...turns out, Secretary Lansard Blaine, a brilliant diplomat who was up for a Nobel Peace Prize, was a compulsive lover of complaisant young women. He was also in the pay of numerous foreign corporations bent on influencing U.S. foreign trade policy. The investigation into his murder is entrusted by President Robert Lang Webster to one of his aides, Ron Fairbanks. The sleuth is given authority to question even the President himself if necessary. Fairbanks, it happens, has an affair of the heart with the President's daughter Lynne. He also has a consuming hatred for the Haldermanic White House...
...result, many Israelis have apparently lost the incentive to work hard at home. An Israeli diplomat in New York City believes that material goals were not always so important to Israelis. "We used to have a simple formula: Israel would not exist without the Jews. This was our motivation and it made our country strong. But in Israel now, people work an eight-hour day and complain like hell. On the other hand, Israelis in the U.S. work for twelve, 14, even 16 hours a day without complaining. It's obvious we've failed somewhere along the line...
Color is a commandment taken literally by the seasoned corps of hardnosed reporters that hold high the Henry Luce standard. The June 16 issue, for example, includes in its lead story the following information: Ted Kennedy travelled in a "long, black Lincoln Continental" wearing a "diplomat's dark blue suit." He made his decision to stay in the presidential race "after several hours of discussion with a break for sandwiches...