Word: kirkpatrick
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...play to consolidate the Pragmatists' control of the White House. This week he plans to ask Reagan to abolish Meese's old Counsellor job. Baker wants to prevent Reagan from putting a True Believer into the spot. He is particularly eager to stop U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick from moving into a newly created role as counselor for foreign policy. Baker feels so strongly about this that if Reagan does not go along, he may submit his resignation...
...True Believers are already plotting to move Kirkpatrick into the post of National Security Adviser, now held by Robert ("Bud") McFarlane. But Shultz is opposed to such a switch. He regards Kirkpatrick as too hard-line and erratic. He would prefer to retain McFarlane, who is an ally and has a low profile. Shultz may get his wish. A close friend of Reagan's says, "I see the President relying on McFarlane more and more. I don't think Bud is going anywhere...
...behalf of the thousands of Weinberger's victims whose corpses are piled in mass graves from H. Salvador to Lebanon. There are plenty of right-wing professors at Harvard who act as "distinguished" apologists for death squad "democracies" or argue openly for anti-Soviet nuclear war. But Jeane Kirkpatrick. Caspar Weinberger. Henry Kissinger, Jose Napoleon Duarte, P.W. Botha, ad nauseuin are war criminals, not academics! Kirkpatrick and Weinberger's concept of "academic freedom" is crystal clear in San Salvador where their puppets shut down the National University at gunpoint. And Botha's apartheid regime exists by enslaving the country...
...some skeptical banter. Referring to Reagan's forthcoming speech to the U.N., Gromyko asked the President, in English, "How many arrows will you shoot at me tomorrow?" Reagan smilingly answered that he had no arrows in his quiver. Gromyko pressed on: "Twenty arrows? Ten?" Reagan let Jeane Kirkpatrick, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., reply for him: "Not even a dart will be thrown...
...Soviet Foreign Minister appeared a bit less dour when he visited the U.S. Mission to the U.N. Wednesday morning for a private meeting with Secretary of State Shultz. The two posed amiably at a picture-taking session in Ambassador Kirkpatrick's office; Gromyko clicked softly to mimic the sound of camera lens shutters. The meeting was much shorter than the American side had expected, lasting just three hours. Neither side would disclose what was said, but American officials reported that the meeting represented "a good start...