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Conservative Professor Ernest Lefever, 61, went to work at the State Department just two weeks after the President's Inauguration. His posting: Assistant Secretary-designate for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs. Not everyone was ecstatic about the choice; his detractors included human rights activists, religious groups, liberal politicians and...
In the Reagan Administration's view, overemphasis on human rights only undermines "authoritarian" regimes that have a capacity for change, and increases the chance that they will be succeeded by "totalitarian" governments-specifically, Communist ones-that obliterate human rights altogether. Says Ernest W. Lefever, who has been selected as...
Ernest Lefever. Though he calls himself a Harry Truman Democrat, the new head of the State Department's Office of Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs represents a clear reversal of the pursuit of international human rights by past Democratic - and Republican - Administrations. In his writings, he has attacked Gerald...
Lefever, 61, says that he is not opposed to the human rights policy, but charges that the Carter Administration selectively applied it to American allies while ignoring abuses in Communist nations. Says he: "We will be upgrading the human rights policy. We are going to be more effective because we...
When Vicki Lefever, 29, a pregnant Santa Monica housewife, went to her mailbox last Dec. 12, she found a disturbing notice. It informed her that her building was being converted into a condominium, and that she and her policeman husband could either buy their apartment, a two-bedroom flat renting...