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Then last week, in an extraordinary front-page mea culpa, the New York Times set about refurbishing Kerry's reputation. Headlined "New Evidence Backs Ex-Envoy on His Role in Chile," a 2,300-word article by former Times Investigative Ace Seymour Hersh, who still does occasional freelance pieces for the paper, reported that although attempts had been made by the CIA to engineer a military takeover in Chile, "none of this, it is now evident, was known to Ambassador Korry." What the Times failed to mention was that the writer who was clearing Kerry's name...
...Salvador's assistance with $10 million in military aid. By way of justification, U.S. diplomats argued that the increasing flow of sophisticated weaponry to the leftists from foreign sources indicated that the antigovernment forces had, in the words of U.S. Ambassador Robert White, "upped the ante." The envoy pointed the finger mostly at Nicaragua, not only as a transit point for arms, but also as the possible base from which a bizarre seaborne "invasion" had supposedly been launched during the offensive against the eastern coast of El Salvador...
...joined the 1958 gubernatorial campaign of Pat Brown, following Brown to Sacramento as his special counsel. He went off to Washington in 1967 as Deputy U.S. Attorney General. Assignments to help calm the riots in Detroit and Washington brought him into close contact with Lyndon Johnson's personal envoy, Cyrus Vance...
...seems unlikely, however, that the Democratic Party will accept the new President's offer to form a bipartisan coalition of "national unity." One reason: D.P. Leader Paul Ssemogerere, 48, was once imprisoned by Obote. Disruptive opposition could spell disaster. Says one envoy based in Uganda: "If Obote runs into a lot of trouble, he probably will revert to type." That would mean going back to the days when Obote suspended the constitution, clapped thousands of opponents in jail without trial and ruled in such a high-handed way the people originally danced in the streets when Amin ousted...
Some of Reagan's other apparent choices would be totally new to the national scene. Drew Lewis, 49, a Pennsylvania businessman who was Reagan's personal envoy to the Republican Nation al Committee during the campaign, is being touted for Secretary of Transportation; Manuel Lujan Jr., 52, a little-known New Mexico Republican Congressman, is being discussed for Secretary of the Interior; Raymond Donovan, 50, an even lesser-known New Jersey contractor with a reputation for getting along with blue-collar unionists, is being tapped to become Secretary of Labor...