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Perhaps government officials actually believed that only Communists could pose the questions raised in the report. The Carter administration's escalation of aid to El Salvador and its systematic dismissal of dissenting views within the State Department--even those of former Secretary of State Edmund Muskie who advised against resumption of support after the murder of the nuns--makes all too possible this dangerous level of ignorance. But when members of Congress, including Massachussetts' Barney Frank, and vocal solidarity organizations were calling for change in policy toward El Salvador, would it take KGB agents to articulate it? More likely than...
...TASS: "What is in the making is another U.S. holdup of Iran." Two weeks ago, TASS reported that the U.S. was getting ready to invade Iran from bases in Egypt, Pakistan or Oman. The fabricated report was thought to be an attempt to scuttle the negotiations. Secretary of State Edmund Muskie summoned Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin and demanded a halt to the "scurrilous propaganda." Dobrynin appeared embarrassed, but TASS responded by warning of a "new anti-Soviet campaign...
...Iranian proposal. Thomas Lebrecque, vice chairman of Chase Manhattan, Alexander Vagliano, head of Morgan Guaranty's international finance operations, and 19 other bankers and attorneys took their places at 11:00 a.m. in a seventh-floor State Department conference room with Miller and Secretary of State Edmund Muskie. The new offer looked interesting. Bank Markazi suggested that when the Iranian funds were unfrozen, it would repay with interest outstanding loans that had been negotiated with about 100 international banks during the Shah's regime. In addition, Iran agreed to set up an escrow account to pay off other...
...negotiations, the Camp David accords-Christopher ran the rest of the State Department. Says Vance: "He really was in every sense an alter ego to me." Christopher intended to resign last April if he was not named to succeed Vance. In the end, however, Carter and the new Secretary, Edmund Muskie, persuaded him to stay on. For the past eight months, some observers assert, Christopher has been the Secretary in all but name, while Muskie has concerned himself chiefly with the public side...
...wrong with our equipment, or our nerve? Had there been a reasonable chance of success or was Carter's raid an ill-advised act of desperation? Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, who had opposed any military rescue attempt from the beginning, resigned. Carter replaced him with Senator Edmund Muskie. In Iran, Ayatullah Khalkhali crowed over Carter's defeat, as authorities with knives picked at the bodies of the dead American raiders before television cameras. Iran and the U.S. haggled over the return of the bodies, parodying in a grisly way the endless dreary bickering, now six months stale...