Word: toon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...author of these grumpy assessments is Malcolm Toon, 65, a retired foreign service officer who served as Ambassador to Israel and the Soviet Union during his 33-year career. In an interview with the Foreign Service Journal, Toon charged that President Reagan is using major diplomatic posts as a "dumping ground" for cronies and financial backers...
Complained Toon, who was replaced in Moscow by former IBM Chairman Thomas Watson in 1979: "We do not have to accept the poor sort of talent we have seen over the past year...
...example, Zbigniew Brzezinski was in Europe last week burnishing the dismal foreign policy record of Jimmy Carter, for whom Brzezinski was National Security Adviser, and suggesting that Reagan's venture into international management so far was amateurish. The Reaganites, complained former Ambassador to Moscow Malcolm Toon not long ago, "have no foreign policy at all." His was the bluntest of many voices on that issue...
...their relationship with the capitals to which they have been appointed. A classic case in point: key negotiations with the U.S.S.R. in the Nixon, Ford and Carter Administrations have usually been carried out by Secretaries of State directly with longtime Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin. Former Ambassador to Moscow Malcolm Toon, a career diplomat for 33 years, thinks this exclusive use of the "Washington channel" is all wrong. Says Toon: "As I told Vance a couple of times, if Washington continues to behave the way it did in terms of using the American embassy in Moscow, they could just as well...