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Seated at a table before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, his hands clasped tightly, the diminutive State Department legal adviser, Abraham Sofaer, hardly looked the role of enfant terrible. But after being praised publicly by Reagan and Secretary of State George Shultz, Sofaer last week stared straight ahead as Democratic Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts delivered a harsher verdict: "You may say the President hasn't created a constitutional crisis . . . maybe you have. Maybe your memorandum...
...attempt to reverse an almost universally held understanding of the 1972 ABM treaty so that the Reagan Administration would be able to test SDI components in space. It was not the first time he has come under fire. In nearly two years as the top legal adviser to Shultz, Sofaer has offered a series of aggressive can-do opinions on a range of foreign policy issues. Democratic Senator Joseph Biden calls Sofaer's work an "unconscionable politicization of the office...
Sofaer has consistently interpreted international law to justify activist, unilateral action by the U.S. He offered the justification for using force against nations harboring terrorists in what has become known as the "Shultz Doctrine." He supported the Administration's widely criticized decision to withdraw partly from the jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice after the court ruled against U.S. support for the Nicaraguan contras. "The U.S. is supposed to be building up international law, not destroying it," says Mark Feldman, a Washington attorney and former staffer in the legal adviser's office...
...this, the feisty Sofaer stands high with Secretary Shultz, who hired him after admiring his performance as federal district court judge in the libel suit by former Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon against TIME magazine.* The son of Sephardic Jews, Sofaer, 48, was born in Bombay, and served for a decade as a distinguished professor at Columbia Law School. From the start he was controversial at the State Department. Although the "Judge" was acknowledged to have a brilliant legal mind, his abrasiveness irritated many of his staff outside the immediate circle of newcomers he brought with...
...proportions. "It's a biggie," said one White House official. "A real biggie." Soviet penetration of embassy communications has been so extensive, officials fear, that U.S. negotiating positions were compromised before the Reykjavik summit last October. The security damage has also seriously hampered preparations for Secretary of State George Shultz's trip to Moscow April 13 -- and could cast a pall over prospects for a summit this year...