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...suppose I should employ the old mother-in-law joke about mixed feelings. It's like seeing your mother-in-law going over a cliff in your new Cadillac." With that happy-go-lucky quip, L. (for Langhorne) Anthony Motley confirmed to newsmen that he would be replacing Thomas O. Enders as Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs. The mixed feelings might apply equally well to Thomas R. Pickering, who was unexpectedly nominated last week for the daunting position of U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador. But the good-humored nonchalance was vintage Motley...
...session stretched on longer, much longer, than expected. For four, five, six hours, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and the members of his Cabinet huddled in Jerusalem and debated. U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz, recovering from a cold, waited patiently in his suite at the King David Hotel. Newsmen, clustered in the parking lot outside Begin's office, kept wondering: Was the length of the meeting auspicious? Or was it an ominous sign? At one point, Yuval Ne'eman, the Science and Development Minister, abruptly walked out, but it turned out that he had just learned that...
...have a bit of fun by prolonging the guessing game. He once promised Texas Congressman Phil Gramm that Gramm could make one of the nominating speeches for him at the Republican Convention in Dallas next year-then, eyes atwinkle, added the inevitable qualification: if he chooses to run. To newsmen he jokes, "There is a 50% chance." He has been equally coy with his closest aides. In a limousine returning to the White House after a speech by Reagan to staunch conservatives, Political Aide Edward Rollins told him that what his audience had wanted to hear was a declaration...
That seems unlikely, but much may depend on how convincing a case CIA Director William Casey and other intelligence officials can make to congressional intelligence committees at closed-door hearings this week. Presumably they will repeat an argument that several Administration officials began making privately to newsmen last week. What counts, the officials maintained, is not the intentions of the contras but those of the U.S. And the contras' hope of overthrowing the Sandinista government is a delusion of grandeur; they lack the numbers, training and equipment to do it. All they can accomplish is to harass the Nicaraguan...
...slingshots, for example, to fling dynamite sticks at targets. The guerrillas' atavistic tactics have evoked a similar response from the Andean villagers. When eight journalists were killed near Ayacucho in January, a government commission concluded that villagers had perpetrated the crime using Senderista methods. The bodies of the newsmen were carefully stripped, washed and turned face down, while their clothes were burned, in accordance with the traditional rites of Andean exorcism. The investigating commission called attention to a fundamental difference between "a Western judicial system and another-archaic, traditional, hidden and sometimes in conflict with the other-which rules...