Word: linowitz
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...briefing to a bipartisan group of 26 former security officials and advisers. Although these experts did not wholeheartedly endorse the Administration view that the Salvadoran guerrillas are actually controlled by Cuba and Nicaragua, they agreed that external forces were playing an important role in the Salvadoran struggle. Said Sol Linowitz, one of the negotiators of the Panama Canal Treaty: "We found it sobering and reason for concern. We found what we were shown to be credible and quite persuasive." Added Jimmy Carter's National Security Adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski: "Disturbing." William Rogers, Richard Nixon's first Secretary of State...
...process should stay on track until the Israelis have withdrawn from the Sinai, but the big problem remains: getting a Palestinian autonomy agreement. Increasingly uneasy about this, the Reagan Administration has at last decided to appoint a special Middle East negotiator, a post that was held by Ambassador Sol Linowitz during the Carter Administration but has remained vacant for the past year. Haig was reluctant to appoint a special envoy in part because he feared that if the talks failed, the Administration risked losing credibility in the Arab world. Now that Haig seems to have changed his mind, the almost...
...Heard, Chancellor, Vanderbilt University; Henry J. Heinz II, Chairman, H.J. Heinz Co.; Matina S. Horner, President, Radcliffe College; T. Lawrence Jones, President, American Insurance Association; Vernon E. Jordan Jr., President, National Urban League Inc.; Robert E. Kirby, Chairman, Westinghouse Electric Corp.; William E. LaMothe, Chairman, Kellogg Co.; Sol M. Linowitz, Senior Partner, Coudert Bros.; William S. Litwin, President, Kero-Sun Inc.; Stewart G. Long, Vice President, Trans World Airlines Inc.; Henry Luce III, President, Henry Luce Foundation Inc.; Robert H. Malott, Chairman, EMC Corp.; Gerald C. Meyers, Chairman, American Motors Corp.; John J. Nevin, Chairman, Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.; Frank...
...told that Arabs are all brothers, with one point of view. But they have totally different points of view on many issues." The participants came away deeply concerned about the difficulties the U.S. faces. John Beckett of Transamerica deplored the lack of a "decent export policy." Former Diplomat Sol Linowitz recommended that the U.S. "get its priorities about the Soviet Union reorganized." Summed up IBM's Watson: "It's pretty hard to sell democracy. While Soviet ideas are very hollow, they can be sold very quickly to people who have nothing more than camels and goats...
...Nebraska Democrat Edward Zorinsky. He has been wooed before. Back in 1978, when the Panama Canal Treaty was in the works, Jimmy Carter invited Zorinsky and 190 of his fellow Nebraskans to the White House for a briefing, had Rosalynn Carter call Zorinsky's wife, had Ambassador Sol Linowitz play tennis with the Senator (Linowitz lost), and invited both Zorinskys to a state dinner for Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito...