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...sudden Israeli invasion of Lebanon, distressing news arrived from another quarter. Speaking before a conference of the conservative Heritage Foundation in New York City, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Jeane Kirkpatrick had just delivered a scathing indictment of the U.S.'s conduct of foreign affairs. The former Georgetown University government professor assailed U.S. policymakers for their "persistent ineptitude in international relations that has persisted through several decades, several Administrations." The U.S., she charged, was guilty of "stumbling from issue to issue almost on a Mad Hatter basis." Added Kirkpatrick: "We simply have behaved like a bunch of amateurs...
Mother Teresa of Calcutta, Catholic missionary and recipient of the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize, at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.: "You are being sent to proclaim [the] good news of love, of peace, of joy. And we have never needed this proclamation more than today-the whole world. And yet the young ones are hungry for God. I'm sure deep down in your hearts you have that hunger for God. Do not be afraid. He loves you. You are precious to him ... 'I called you by your name. You are mine. Water cannot drown you. Fire will...
...Dash, 57, chief counsel for Senate committee. Wrote profitable Watergate book Chief Counsel, lectured, still teaches at Georgetown University...
...research centers--including the CSIA--are not without their critics. Some of the more literal experts in the arms control field point to the Center for Strategic and International Studies at Georgetown as being an overly enthusiastic proponent of hard-line strategies. Martin Sherwin a visiting professor in Harvard's graduate American history program, divides research centers into two categories: those that criticize government policy constructively without trying to undermine it and those that make "too much of an effort to find creative uses for nuclear weapons...
...confrontation between Britain and Latin America will be the U.S." Panama President Aristides Royo has accused the U.S. of betraying its Latin neighbors by "changing hats and choosing sides when it should have remained neutral." Most U.S. experts take Latin America's anger seriously. Says Robert Leiken of Georgetown University: "This has struck a very deep nerve." The U.S. is viewed as tricky, sly and selling out its Latin friends...