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...trying to live up to him." In any case, as former Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger noted, the changing of the guard "adds uncertainty at precisely the time we don't need it." Jong Il plainly will find some rough going in acquiring his father's stature. Noted Norman Levin, a senior analyst at Rand Corp. in California: "If Kim Il Sung said white is black, he could make it stick. No one now has that sort of authority...
...believe the Kims are working on a deal. "I've never been fully convinced," he says, "that people invest that much money and effort in a program they're going to bargain away." The diplomatic fog, he thinks, has all been cover for a determined bomb program. Norman Levin, a senior analyst at the Rand Corp., believes North Korea is bargaining, but not about economic aid or diplomatic recognition. The issue is securing the succession of Kim Jong Il, who does not have the popular following or revolutionary credentials of his father. But, says Levin, if the younger Kim "outsmarts...
...Beinecke professor of Economics at Yale,Levin has been at the New Haven school more than24 years as a student and faculty member...
...Levin took his undergraduate degree at StanfordUniversity in 1968 and studied politics andphilosophy at Oxford University, where he earned abachelor of literature degree. He received his Ph.D. from Yale in 1974 and was named to theeconomics faculty that same year...
...first Jewish president of Yale Levin hassaid his priorities include balancing theuniversity's budget, improving the physicalcondition of the campus and obtaining increasedpublic funding for the sciences...