Word: moynihanized
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...Moynihan's "mini-Salzburg," recalling Henry Kissinger's own resignation threat in Austria last year when wiretapping accusations burst around him, left the Ford Administration with another wound. The President's inability to absorb one more high-level departure was exposed. Moynihan's own reputation was reduced; his threat to quit was seen as a temper tantrum with an aroma of vanity. Kissinger's authority was eroded too, since Moynihan went over his head to the President and won Ford's public backing...
...Connivance. When Britain's U.N. ambassador Ivor Richard ridiculed Moynihan as a shoot-from-the-hip Wyatt Earp (TIME, Dec. 1), some Moynihan supporters heard Kissinger's voice behind it. New York Times Columnist William Safire (who has been conducting a long vendetta-against Kissinger) speculated that Kissinger had planted the idea with Britain's Foreign Secretary James Callaghan during last month's economic summit talks in Rambouillet, France. Though the British later told Moynihan that Richard's views were "official" - endorsed by his government in London - participants in the Rambouillet talks deny any connivance...
...Moynihan felt that the British attack was relished by his critics in Washington and Kissinger's first public defense of him - "I very much hope he stays, I consider him a good friend" - was symptomatic of tepid State Department support. Moynihan believes that in the U.N., the conflict is essentially between political philosophies, ind he feels U.S. career diplomats are often untrained for battle. They, Moynihan gibed cruelly in a recent speech, are likely to ask, "Marx...
...Moynihan's view, the world's minority of liberal parliamentary democracies is under assault from a majority of the U.N.'s 143 members; many are totalitarian and ideologically hostile to the U.S. Moynihan insists that his instructions from President Ford were unmistakable. "To say," as Moynihan puts it: "there are some things you cannot do to us and some things you cannot say about us. And we will just not take that, and we will find ways to discourage...
Amnesty Loss. Moynihan phoned the State Department to step up the pressure abroad. The weekend before the final vote, Kissinger belatedly ordered ambassadors to visit the foreign ministers of five key Third World governments, but after the vote, Western European delegates complained that Moynihan's "threatening" tactics had made face-saving compromise impossible. One European ambassador reported that three African delegates claimed they could not even abstain in the vote for fear of appearing to knuckle under to an American ambassador who had called the Organization of African Unity's chairman, President Idi Amin Dada of Uganda...