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...past fortnight's change in the Administration's tone, however, is largely the work of U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Jeane Kirkpatrick. After a ten-day fact-finding trip to the region last month, she gave the President an exceptionally gloomy report. Backed by Clark, she repeated her longstanding conviction that if El Salvador fell to the rebels, the rest of Central America would be imperiled. Only an immediate infusion of aid to El Salvador, she told Reagan, could stave off the sound of falling dominoes...
Disturbed by Kirkpatrick's presentation, Reagan ordered a "full review" of Central American policy. His first priority was money. Instead of approving the request for $86.3 million in military aid to El Salvador for 1983 (up from $82 million spent in 1982), the last Congress had authorized only $26 million. According to the Administration, the Salvadorans have already spent the $26 million, primarily during the guerrilla offensive...
...Salvador's Comalapa International Airport, smiles and warm handshakes were the only weapons on display last week, as U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador Deane Hinton and a swarm of local dignitaries turned out to welcome U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Jeane Kirkpatrick on the fourth stop of a five-nation Latin American tour. On her arrival, Kirkpatrick declared that the Marxist guerrillas in El Salvador are "not winning anything." The Salvadorans had a message of their own for Kirkpatrick to pass on to the Reagan Administration: they want an addition of at least $35 million...
Adelman grew up in Chicago, the son of an attorney, and graduated from Grinnell College in Iowa. He went on to get a master's degree and Ph.D. from Georgetown University under the tutelage of then Professor Jeane Kirkpatrick. His Ph.D. thesis was based on a three-year stint in Zaïre, where his wife was a public health specialist for the Agency for International Development. In 1976 and '77 Adelman worked as a special assistant to then Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, his political mentor. Adelman served on Reagan's transition team, then returned...
When a job opened up at the U.N. in the summer of 1981, Kirkpatrick hired her former student. But his relations with Kirkpatrick had become strained, U.N. insiders say, and he found himself with little to do except serve on the disarmament committee. Kirkpatrick was reportedly irritated by Adelman's brash writings, including an article in Harper's that compared the "royal incompetence" of Tanzania's President Julius Nyerere with Shakespeare's Richard II. Members of the U.S. mission talk about "the Ken problem," his tendency to promote simple solutions to complex issues. "He bubbles over...