Safirka: An American EnvoyKent State University Press, 2000 - 241 pages Peter S. Bridges's service as an American ambassador to Somalia capped his three decades as a career officer in the American Foreign Service. Safirka, a frank description of his experiences in Somalia and elsewhere, offers pointed assessments of American foreign policy and policymakers. Bridges recounts his service in Panama during a time of turmoil over the Canal; in Moscow during the Cuban missile crisis; in Prague for bleak years after the Soviet invasion; in Rome when Italian terrorists first began to target Americans; and in key positions in three Washington agencies. In Somalia Bridges managed the largest American aid program in sub-Sahara Africa. He dealt with a postcolonial regime, hobbled both by traditional clan rivalries and by a leader who cared far less about Somalia's people and progress than about maintaining his control over that poverty-stricken, strategic - which soon erupted in civil war. |
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... East Germany did the same . Sometimes the Soviets and East Germans used rough techniques to keep the American , British , or French officers from getting close to their missile emplacements or armored units . We students included also ...
... East Africa , at Labataan Jir near Baidoa , and it still functions . The GDR ambassador was a pleasant , elderly man and had probably not expected that Labataan Jir would come up during my courtesy call . But I wanted to make sure his ...
... East African Affairs Office , 60 ; East European Affairs Office ( EE ) , 54-56 ; Foreign Buildings Office , 61 ; Foreign Service personnel policy , 49-50 ; Juba River dam studies , 102 ; Murphy Commission , 49-50 ; Near Eastern Bureau ...
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From Foggy Bottom to the Isthmus | 13 |
The Moscow Hand | 26 |
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