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...Graham's 70th-birthday ; bash was not the long reach of her Washington Post Co. publishing empire but the possibility of not being invited. Among the 600 or more well-wishers at the fete organized by Graham's daughter Lally Weymouth: Ronald and Nancy Reagan, Secretary of State George Shultz, Senator Edward Kennedy, Publisher Malcolm Forbes, ABC Newswoman Barbara Walters and retiring Supreme Court Associate Justice Lewis Powell. "Here's looking at you, kid," said the President as he toasted the liberal Graham in Casablanca style. Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger noted the "mark the Washington Post has left...
...somehow help bring it to an end. Among other statements last week, the State Department counseled against any attempt to forcibly dislodge a group of 500 students who took refuge in Seoul's Myongdong Roman Catholic Cathedral. The protesters eventually left of their own accord. Secretary of State George Shultz, who was attending an ASEAN foreign ministers' conference in Singapore, declared, "Our advice is somehow to resume the process of dialogue between the government and the opposition so that a method of establishing a democratic tradition can be worked out in a mutually agreeable way." Even President Reagan felt obliged...
Biden's mouth is both his greatest asset and his greatest liability. During a hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last year, Biden came across as a hothead seeking hot headlines as he relentlessly badgered Secretary of State George Shultz over U.S. policy toward South Africa. The day after, he approached a friend on the Senate floor and asked sheepishly, "How much do you think I lost on that? I guess I made a fool of myself...
...navies, are in fact on patrol around the gulf. As for the West Germans and the Japanese, they have no global navies to send. (We arranged for that after World War II.) Shall America wait then for the Canadians and Italians before venturing back into the gulf? As Secretary Shultz points out, the British have two frigates and a destroyer in the area, which is more, proportionately, than the U.S. has. The French also have warships in the region protecting their own vessels. Shouldn't they be acting with the United States to protect American-flagged ships? The answer...
...Fawn Hall's insistence that "it was a policy of mine not to ask questions" echoed the attitudes of other witnesses. Even Cabinet officials showed little curiosity about the questionable activities of their subordinates or timidly shrugged off decisions with which they sharply disagreed. Secretary of State George Shultz, for example, termed North a "loose cannon" and told Assistant Secretary of State Elliott Abrams to "monitor Ollie." But Abrams testified that he merely asked North if he was doing anything illegal. Like Hall, Abrams said, "I was careful not to ask Colonel North questions I did not need to know...