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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... Moscow through bleak woods , the unkempt fields of collective farms , and the Pripet Marshes , where we just missed a moose that ran in front of our bus . In the following two weeks , we saw ... Moscow , I wondered if I The Moscow Hand 29.
... Moscow , and Nikita Khrushchev was nearing the end of his reign in Moscow , although we did not know that . We could see some of Khrushchev's failures , among them his Cuban missile ploy ( the Cuban missile crisis had come just a month ...
... Moscow . I hated to tell him that I had gone not to the phones but to the men's room . The drafter of the ... Moscow's star rode high in Africa and Asia . Soviet aid flowed into those continents in large amounts , and many Africans and ...
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