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 Act , writing for the American Foreign Service Association in April 1979 a report that made clear that the elements of the proposal affecting senior career officers were nothing but a sham . The proposal was supposedly ...
... Foreign - Affairs Mess . ” Christian Science Monitor , November 3 , 1987 . " Ethiopia , Somalia : More Famine and Fighting at a Horn of Unplenty . " Los Angeles Times , April 3 , 1988 . - " May Days in Siberia . " Tales of the Foreign ...
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