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...Works, maker of Lada sedans, to a foreign investor. The portion of the company up for sale is worth more than $1 billion. The most likely purchaser is the Italian automaker Fiat S.p.A. But the Soviets are not about to miss out on any better offers: they have hired Bear, Stearns, the Wall Street investment banking house, to provide them with some American know-how. Bear, Stearns is bullish on the U.S.S.R. Says Brian Murray, senior managing director: "Foreign companies who position themselves will really reap the benefits...
...Emir has declared that a "rightly guided society lets neither the criminal go unpunished nor the innocent bear the blame for others," but Kuwait has already expressed its preference for punishment. As for U.S. Ambassador Edward Gnehm's observation that "no matter how emotionally difficult it is, Kuwaitis must now champion justice and fairness for all people in Kuwait in the same way the entire world stood for those principles for Kuwaitis," well, Gnehm must share a speechwriter with the Emir...
...recent foreign policy, and even its victories, to the concerns of most Americans." The U.S., he says, should junk the idea of "exercising something called leadership" and "insulate" itself from the disasters of the Third World. He would also have the U.S. abandon "overseas missions that, however appealing, bear only marginally on protecting and enriching the nation." The list of activities he believes so qualify includes "promoting peace, stability, democracy and development around the world" and "protecting human rights...
Some version of this theme is sure to figure in the Democrats' presidential campaign next year. It's a safe bet their candidate won't echo John F. Kennedy's exhortation to "pay any price, bear any burden." Instead, Thomas Jefferson's warning against entangling alliances is back in fashion. Reston endorses John Quincy Adams' injunction to go "not abroad in search of monsters to destroy," while Hyland offers his own version: "The enemy is not at the gate, but it may already be inside...
...Because it's not his prosecution, he's less willing to bear the pain of declassifying...