Word: kampelman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Also, the instructions sent Tuesday night to chief U.S. negotiator Max M. Kampelman after a Pentagon review did not contain any call for removing U.S. and Soviet intermediaterange missiles in Europe...
...officials, who demanded anonymity, said there would be a follow-up package expanding Kampelman's instructions and also dealing with the Euromissiles after details are worked out by U.S. arms specialists here...
While President Reagan declared in a Baltimore speech, "Let's not look back and place blame," U.S. arms specialists worked on a package of proposals for Max Kampelman, the chief U.S. negotiator, to present to Viktor Karpov, head of the Soviet delegation in Geneva...
...Kampelman the Democrat is out of the Henry ("Scoop") Jackson mold: like the late Washington Senator, he favors liberal social policies while taking a hawkish stance on national defense. He was not always so promilitary. The son of a hat salesman in the Bronx, Kampelman had graduated from New York University and was working his way through law school when he was drafted in 1942. A Jew, he cited religious reasons in declaring himself a conscientious objector. Says he: "I just couldn't see myself killing anyone." Rather than fight, he volunteered for alternative service in a program...
When Hubert Humphrey went to Washington as a Senator in 1949, Kampelman followed as his legislative counsel. He left Capitol Hill in 1955 to join the prestigious law firm currently known as Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson. He also enlisted in the Marine Corps Reserve. Explains Kampelman: "The development of atomic and hydrogen bombs led me to doubt my earlier faith in the power of nonviolence to overcome evil in international relations...