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...become fashionable these days to charge "McCarthyism of the left," an allegation Kirkpatrick likes to throw out. While we cannot deny that historically there have been examples of severe repression carried out in the name of the "left," in this case, such a charge is preposterous. After all, Caspar Weinberger is not a private citizen hounded by the custodians of a repressive state apparatus. To the contrary, as Secretary of Defense he is an official voice of government policy. His position gives him immediate access to newspapers and television. His views are well known. It is not the right...
...Washington, he nonetheless talks about ideas in layman's terms; he often says that one must not overestimate the audience's specific knowledge or underestimate its intelligence. His most difficult feat is avoiding the twin pitfalls of overaggressiveness and overfamiliarity. Says U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Jeane Kirkpatrick: "He is tough enough to make it interesting to engage in the discussion, but the questions are always straight and fair...
...would be dispensed through a Central American development organization that would draw up regional plans. It would be chaired by an American but include representatives of all seven Central American nations.* In effect, this would be the Marshall Plan for Central America long advocated by Jeane Kirkpatrick, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and a senior adviser to the commission. Economic aid, the panel said, should be made conditional on the recipients' agreeing to democratic reforms that would make the benefits available to poor as well as rich...
Contrast this to the Reagan Administration. For the first time in history, three women hod Cabinet-level posts simultaneously, all at the behest of Reagan--Jeanne Kirkpatrick at the U.N., Margaret Heckler at Health and Human Services, and Elizabeth Dole at the Department of Transportation. His lower-level appointments of women do not match up numerically with Jimmy Carter's at a similar point in Administration--95 to 113 for posts needing Senate confirmation, 10 to 18 for Federal judgeships--but he made history by appointing Sandra Day O'Vonnor to the Supreme Court. Also, comparison with Carter amounts...
...Jeane Kirkpatrick's feelings are hurt. Poor little soul. I get the impression she could tramp over others without wincing...