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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... Foreign Service Journal , under the pseudonym of " Joel Barlow , " that criticized the proliferation of top posts in the Department as well as the proliferation of other agencies claiming an interest in managing our foreign affairs ...
... Service , 79 , 89 , 158 , 159 , 185 ; National Security Agency , 27 ; Navy , 112 ; relationship with Panama , 15 ... Foreign Service officers U.S. Information Service ( USIS ) . See Infor- mation Service , United States U.S. State ...
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Scholar Soldier Someday Diplomat | 7 |
From Foggy Bottom to the Isthmus | 13 |
The Moscow Hand | 26 |
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