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...Washington Lawyer Max Kampelman, who successfully negotiated the Madrid agreement on European security and human rights in 1983, will be in overall charge of the U.S. delegation and also handle the talks on space weapons. Former Senator John Tower will be the U.S. negotiator on strategic weapons, and career Diplomat Maynard Glitman will be the point man on the intermediate-range missile discussions. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko declared last week that unless the U.S. was willing to bargain seriously on space weapons, arms-control negotiations would be "blown up." Weinberger said that he flatly "ruled out" giving up Star...
...faces on Mount Rushmore, but Benjamin Franklin has a position in American mythology that could hardly be loftier. Canny diplomat and dispenser of moral apothegms, scientist and pioneer in electrical experiment and theory, Franklin is everyone's favorite patriot, the kindly uncle of the American Revolution. There was, however, a dark side to the familiar beaming countenance, an aspect that might have come from one of Freud's case histories of an overheated family crucible. This provocative and enlightening account overturns the legend by examining William, Benjamin's only son, born out of wedlock in 1731. Once his father...
...that he had fallen out of favor with the Kremlin. The first official indication of his new standing came in an obituary for Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov, which was published on Dec. 22. Ogarkov's name appeared in the tenth of 17 rows of official signatures. Said a Western diplomat in Moscow: "He must be in about a third-echelon position...
...place. There had been speculation that Politburo Member Grigori Romanov, 61, a civilian defense-industry expert from Leningrad, might replace Ustinov. Instead the post went to Marshal Sergei Sokolov, the First Deputy Defense Minister, who at 73 is the oldest man ever appointed to the job. As one Western diplomat in Moscow noted, the Kremlin opted "for the safe and the obvious...
...expected to wield the same power that Ustinov did. A professional soldier, Sokolov began his career in the tank corps in the 1930s and rose through the ranks to become a regional military commander and, eventually, the senior administrative officer of the Defense Ministry. Said a NATO diplomat in Moscow: "The appointment does not change the basic rule that policy is made by the civilians and executed by the soldiers...