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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An American Envoy Peter Bridges. Above : Peter Bridges , Communist Party general secretary Gustav Husak , U.S.secretary of state William Rogers , U.S. assistant secretary of state Walter Stoessel , interpreter , Foreign Minister Bohuslav ...
... secretary and depu- ty secretary to maintain their constant links with Washington . The third deputy's job was not taxing , but I had a promise of promo- tion later to become second deputy - until Cyrus Vance became secretary of state ...
... secretary , Robert Carswell . I was horrified to see that Carswell had modified it to read in still less superlative ... secretary , to the assistant secretary for international organization affairs . The assistant secretary finally ...
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Scholar Soldier Someday Diplomat | 7 |
From Foggy Bottom to the Isthmus | 13 |
The Moscow Hand | 26 |
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