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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... John Shillock . The DCM had decided trouble was likely , and so he had come down to the embassy rather than accompany Ambassador Harrington to the president's palace . I had just finished telling Mr. Shillock what I had seen downtown ...
... John Paul II , 75 Johnson , Lyndon B. , 178n Johnston , Paul , 159 Jotti , Nilde , 5 Juba River , Somalia , 76 , 169 , 189 , 211 Juba River dam , 100-102 , 101n , 171–72 Kamstra , Mike , 80 Kassebaum , Nancy , 138 Kennedy , John F. , 52 ...
... John , 179 Leakey , Richard , 180 Mahdi , Ali ( Ali Mahdi Mohamed ) , 84 , 107 , 204-5 Maio , Scerif Ahmed ( driver ) , 71–73 , 75 , 91 , 144 , 153 , 155–56 , 177 , 204 Mait , Somalia , 190–91 Malaya , 98 Manca , Mario , 92 , 144n , 182 ...
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Scholar Soldier Someday Diplomat | 7 |
From Foggy Bottom to the Isthmus | 13 |
The Moscow Hand | 26 |
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