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Enders' successor, Motley, is considered too inexperienced in the State Department to exert the kind of influence that got Enders into trouble. Motley, moreover, is regarded as a Reagan loyalist unlikely to have differences with the White House. Still, Motley has been blunt-spoken and independent in Brasilia. He recently said of his job: "We are dealing with a goddam tough set of facts as representatives of the U.S., and it is no job for cookie-pushing layabouts." He has been critical of diplomats who ignore Congress or fail to answer letters from legislators. "We at State...
...until 1964. Any forger using a pen not common in the period his document purports to derive from risks quick discovery. The modern proliferation of pens, particularly ballpoints, complicates the task of current document analysts, but can provide fresh clues. A ballpoint requires the writer to exert more pressure; the force with which individuals habitually attack their writing is often distinctive...
Beckman explains that although they exert a similar influence on the squad, they differ in playing styles. "Howard is a really tough player mentally, while Warren and Adam are fighters--they work hard and fight for everything they...
...benefit of hindsight and the opportunity to pose solutions that cannot be tested against events. The Administration's dithering over the Soviet-Cuban intervention in Ethiopia was, he asserts, a disastrous turning point. The fault, he quickly adds, lay largely with Vance and others who were loath to exert power. If Brzezinski had had his way, the U.S. would have sternly warned the Kremlin about the effect of its Ethiopian gambit on arms-control talks. He would have perhaps even sent an aircraft carrier to show the flag off the Horn of Africa. Brzezinski's response might have...
...University. This view, based largely on the original impetus for ROTC's expulsion--its association with the United States' morally bankrupt adventure in Vietnam--presupposes that there is something ineradicable corrupt and oppressive about the American military. It overlooks the potentially salutary influence that liberal arts students may exert on the armed forces. Broadening America's officer corps to include graduates of schools like Harvard will make the military more representative of society as a whole, and will have a leavening effect on military attitudes and practices. It is not at all farfetched to suppose, for example, that an officer...