Word: georgetown
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...over any cash at all to the Iranians, the U.S. is paying ransom to the kidnapers and setting a potentially disastrous precedent. Says Michael Ledeen, editor of the Washington Quarterly: "I don't think we should reward criminals with money." Adds Edward Luttwak, a foreign policy expert at Georgetown University: "By saving 52 lives, we sacrificed diplomats all over a world riddled with half-crazy governments." This view is also heard abroad, though mostly in nongovernmental circles. The Swiss newspaper Journal de Genève asserts that the agreement "suggests to the entire world that it is possible...
Learned articles were written about the hazards of splitting White House authority between Ed Meese and Jim Baker. The idea of a super-Cabinet committee, of collegial decision making, drew somber sighs from Harvard to Georgetown. Editorial pages choked with warnings about the confusion, cost and delays in the transition...
WITH THE SELECTION of Jeanne Kirkpatrick as his choice for U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, president-elect Ronald Reagan has realized the worst fears about his foreign policy towards the Third World and especially towards Latin American countries. Kirkpatrick, a Georgetown professor and harsh critic of President Carter's human rights policy, perhaps best encapsulated her attitudes when, in December, she said she strongly believes the U.S. should, in the name of stability, support "mildly repressive" governments. Revolutionaries, Kirkpatrick contends, only appeal to liberals because their rhetoric masks their real intentions: furthering Soviet ambitions for global domination and imposing...
...part of a group of hard-line defense and foreign policy intellectuals associated with the American Enterprise Institute and Georgetown University, where she teaches political science. A gifted lecturer with a schoolmarm's no-nonsense forthrightness, Kirkpatrick is admired and sometimes feared by colleagues as a scorching polemicist-an attribute that may win her some points but may also make some difficulties for her, as it did for one other outspoken U.N. Ambassador, Daniel Patrick Moynihan...
...Evron Kirkpatrick, who is now executive director of the American Political Science Association, and devoted most of the next eight years to bringing up their three sons. When the children had all entered school, she earned her doctorate in political science from Columbia University, and then started teaching at Georgetown. In 1974 she published a book, Political Woman, in which she showed that American women in politics behave much like men, though they tend to get a later start because of child rearing. "There is a reluctance to have women run for office," she explains. "But one of the interesting...