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...carries his own precipice around with him under his arm." With that somewhat surrealistic metaphor, an old friend describes Daniel Patrick Moynihan's habit of living close to the edge of trouble through his gift for overstatement and overreaction. But often the statements and reactions are deliberate. When a classified cable from Moynihan blasting the State Department surfaced in the press last week, it looked like the latest gambit in the intrigue between Moynihan and Henry Kissinger...
...sometimes bracing, sometimes abrasive role as Ambassador to the U.N. (TIME cover, Jan. 26), Moynihan has long felt himself insufficiently supported by Kissinger and the State Department. In his "brief essay," sent to Kissinger two weeks ago as part of a year's end report, he complained that unspecified State Department officials were undermining his U.N. tactics. His aim, he contended, was to carry out a "basic [U.S.] foreign policy goal" by making it clear to nations voting consistently against American positions that they can expect to be forcefully rebutted by the U.S. and in some cases to receive...
...contrary, asserted Moynihan, he was succeeding in breaking up bloc voting at the U.N. "This mission does not expect such persons [i.e., the critics] to change their minds," declared Moynihan in the cable. "We do ask, however, that out of a decent respect for their profession they stop blabbing to the press what...
...placing the lowest classification on the cable ("Limited Official Use") and asking that it go to all U.S. embassies round the world, Moynihan must have known that the chances of it becoming public were high. Though there were suspicions that Moynihan himself leaked the cable, the actual culprit was a State Department source friendly to Moynihan and his policies...
...Moynihan's spreading popularity has inevitably given rise to speculation that he may run for public office, and he is reportedly being strongly urged by supporters to seek the Democratic nomination for the New York Senate seat now held by Republican Senator James Buckley. But Moynihan has denied any intention of running, and he removed his name last week from the ballot for the Democratic primary in Massachusetts...