Word: kirkpatrick
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...John's skin formulas, she worked tirelessly behind cramped counters, in the waiting rooms of store buyers, pushing, touching, smearing, charming, hectoring. When she first met Helena Rubinstein, she told her that Lauder Creme Pack would do much to smooth out Madame's neck. (Decades later she astounded Jeane Kirkpatrick with the suggestion that her clothes aged her. "You mean you don't like what I'm wearing?" gasped the Ambassador...
Today the Security Council exists mostly as a place to let off steam. Former Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick has called it a "Turkish bath." Laments Brian Urquhart, Under Secretary-General for Special Political Affairs: "There are moments when I feel that only an invasion from outer space will reintroduce into the Security Council that unanimity and spirit which the founders of the charter were talking about...
...nonaligned nations ganged up on the U.S. and its surrogates, most notably Israel, while the Soviet Union sat back and cheered. The Israel bashing reached grotesque heights in 1975 when the General Assembly passed a resolution equating Zionism with racism. The U.S., in the meantime, became "essentially impotent," as Kirkpatrick put it, "without influence, heavily outvoted and isolated...
Articles in the first issue cover topics ranging from terrorism to the paralyzing effect Congress has on the President's ability to forge foreign policy. Jeane Kirkpatrick, who serves on the journal's advisory board, contributes a speech arguing the morality of U.S. aid to anti-Communist rebels. In an essay, Kristol says that support is growing in the U.S. for a muscular foreign policy grounded in the belief that the conflict between the U.S. and the Soviet Union is not one of clashing national interests, as some liberals say, but of ideologies. Kristol predicts that the U.S. will...
Maryland Democrats outnumber Republicans 3 to 1, and to many observers, Mathias' retirement means that his seat could be won by a Democrat, perhaps Governor Harry Hughes. One possibility as a G.O.P. contender: former U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick...