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...with a fervent black movement seems to elude him. Jackson, who took black votes from Mondale in the primaries but whose followers are vital to Mondale's chances in November, must be subtly massaged. He cannot be assuaged with something like a promise of a Cabinet post or an ambassadorship...
Some who are acquainted with my recent political history may raise their eyebrows. They may well ask, how could you suddenly be for Mondale? Didn't you leave an important ambassadorship to work for Ted Kennedy in 1979? Aren't you the one who walked out of the 1980 Democratic National Convention to avoid any sense of commitment to a Carter-Mondale ticket? Didn't you then bolt the party to join the John Anderson "National Unity" ticket in open opposition to the Carter-Mondale slate? To all of those charges I plead guilty and offer no apologies. In both...
...while canvassing for Alaska's two Senators that Motley, though no ideologue, endeared himself to Republicans on Capitol Hill. That association earned him the ambassadorship to Brazil in July 1981, amid a chorus of skeptical murmurs. But Motley's brand of eager and enterprising informality was well suited to his birthplace. He not only silenced his detractors but also charmed an impressive number of high-level Brazilians, all in fluent Portuguese. Sometimes driving out to the country in his pickup for drinks with Brazil's President João Baptista Figueiredo, he was instrumental in arranging state...
...difficulties stem, at least in part, from the nature of her job. Says one knowledgeable diplomatic source: "She has been shocked into seeing that her role is a marginal one. You can't change the framework of existing foreign policy in New York." Indeed, ever since the U.N. ambassadorship became a Cabinet-level post in 1961, the position has had a complicated dual status. As a Cabinet member, Kirkpatrick is entitled to press her views on the President. At the same time, however, she must report to and take orders from the Secretary of State. Apparently unwilling...
...always been surrounded by the academic and famous. Her father is Gunnar Myrdal, the Nobel Prize-winning economist, and her mother is a diplomat who has sat in Sweden's parliament and held that country's ambassadorship to India. Her own field is moral philosophy--an area she exlored in her aaard-winning 1978 book "Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life...