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...comparative inexperience bothers some voters. Bush has an impressive resume: CIA director, U.N. ambassador, envoy to China. His greatest political strength is that voters currently find him more credible than Ferraro as a possible President. Yet despite his Government service, Bush has not often come across as a savant during the campaign. Last month in remarks at a Vermont college, he committed an elaborate fumble concerning the 1979 Nicaraguan revolution. "The Sandinistas came in," he said. "They overthrew Somoza, killed him and overthrew him. Killed him, threw him out." In fact, ex-Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle was assassinated in Paraguay...
...public and ordered Egyptian newspapers to follow his example. At the same time, the Egyptian President down-played his country's relationship with Israel, its treaty partner. Soon after the Israelis invaded Lebanon in 1982, Mubarak recalled his country's ambassador from Tel Aviv in protest; the envoy has yet to return...
...sound out Gromyko on a possible fresh approach to START, and Moscow's scuttling of its own offer to discuss in Vienna the militarization of space. But Shultz was determined to keep his lines of communication open, primarily through Soviet Ambassador to Washington Anatoli Dobrynin and the U.S. envoy to Moscow, Arthur Hartman. Finally, State Department officials hit upon the idea of getting Reagan and Gromyko together by reviving an old custom: extending an invitation to the Soviet Foreign Minister during his visit to the U.N. Reagan enthusiastically approved the plan. Says a senior State Department official: "The really...
...Winn was conferring with a Dutch diplomat. Said Winn later: "We heard a burst of automatic fire, and we both looked at each other, and then it blew." He and others rushed to the Ambassador's office, where they found Miers shaken but not seriously hurt. The British envoy asked them to help him dig out Bartholomew, who was so covered with rubble that he was not even visible. Like Miers, Bartholomew was not badly injured. The two diplomats briefly surveyed the devastation below and were then taken to the hospital...
Just as the negotiations were about to begin, Philipp Jenninger, the head of the West German delegation, asked East Berlin's envoy to Bonn, Ewald Moldt, to step into his office for a private chat. Jenninger asked the East German if rumors that Honecker might not be coming to West Germany on Sept. 26 were true. Replied Moldt awkwardly: "The timing of the visit is no longer realistic." Thus came the earliest official word that the first visit by an East German Communist Party leader to West Germany had been postponed−perhaps indefinitely...