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...Reagan Administration's view, overemphasis on human rights only undermines "authoritarian" regimes that have a capacity for change, and increases the chance that they will be succeeded by "totalitarian" governments-specifically, Communist ones-that obliterate human rights altogether. Says Ernest W. Lefever, who has been selected as Haig's top assistant for human rights policy: "There
...Ernest Lefever. Though he calls himself a Harry Truman Democrat, the new head of the State Department's Office of Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs represents a clear reversal of the pursuit of international human rights by past Democratic - and Republican - Administrations. In his writings, he has attacked Gerald Ford and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger for "arrogance, illusion and capriciousness" in trying to promote majority rule in Rhodesia, and questioned their "undue alarm" over nuclear proliferation. In 1978, as head of Washington's Ethics and Public Policy Center, he caught Reagan's eye with...
Several Harvard faculty were in Washington last weekend as part of a three-day "Democratic Leadership Conference" sponsored by Democratic members of the House of Representatives to garner ideas on major issues. Ernest R. May, professor of History, and former State Department official Richard N. Cooper, Boas Professor of International Economics, spoke on foreign policy...
...within 28 minutes last Tuesday, the U.S. press was ready-perhaps too ready. ABC, CBS and NBC together spent an estimated $10 million to cover the interlocking dramas. Each fielded some 400 news reporters, producers and technicians worldwide to cover the stories, pulling many staffers off other assignments. Says Ernest Leiser, CBS vice president for special events and political coverage: "We had to cannibalize the rest of CBS news in order to do it." The Associated Press and United Press International had hundreds of reporters in Washington, Wiesbaden, Frankfurt and Algiers, as well as in dozens of American towns where...
When writers paused for breath, Mayes would start talking. By the time he had finished, their names were often affixed to contracts. F. Scott Fitzgerald was one of his authors; so were Sinclair Lewis, Ernest Hemingway, J.D. Salinger, Katherine Anne Porter, Herman Wouk, Agatha Christie, Art Linkletter, Clare Boothe Luce, Ogden Nash, Hubert Humphrey, Jacqueline Kennedy, Lucille Ball and Maurice Chevalier, and most of them are worth a story or two. Mayes treated them with amused kindness, helped them through personal crises and paid them well, even for that golden age of magazines: $10,000 per short story for Somerset...