THREE WHO COULD SLIP INTO JEANE'S SHOES

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• Publication Date: January 28, 1985
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UR-NOLD BEICHMAN
WASHINGTON '1IMES
2b January 1985
gee who could sli
p into
JeaRe s ssh
n
n a perfect world, Congress
would vote unanimously to
make Jean-Francois Revel an
honorary American citizen,
enabling President Reagan to
appoint this brilliant French philos-
opher and political analyst our
ambassador to the United Nations as
a worthy successor to Jeane J. Kirk-
patrick.
His writings have become polemi-
cal classics in the finest Voltairean
tradition. His latest volume warns of
the dismal future ahead for the
Western democracies because of
their ineptitude in dealing with the
Soviet Union and its intellectual
allies.
But this, alas, is an imperfect
world and, therefore, we must turn
to those of our own who could do the
job at the U.N. as brilliantly as Mrs.
Kirkpatrick has for the past four
There are three I would like to
suggest to President Reagan as pos-
sible successors - three distin-
guished Americans who have
demonstrated by their records of
public service and as private citi-_ ;
zens that they understand this dangerous world and what makes it so
dangerous. I do not hesitate to use
the blunt, descriptive noun which
describes their politics. They are
hard-liners in the Reagan tradition.
The three I propose for pres-
idential consideration are, in alpha-
betical order, Anne Armstrong,-
Arnold Beichman, -visiting
scholar at the Hoover Institution, is
author of The `Other' State Depart-
ment, a history of the U.S. Mission to
the U.N.
Glenn Campbell, and Frank
Shakespeare. A brief career
description of each, in reverse
order: .
Frank Shakespeare has been
president of RKO General for a dec-
ade, after a long career with CBS-TV
and Westinghouse. Between those,
jobs, he served brilliantly from 1969
to 1973 as director of the U.S. Infor
mation Agency. He now is chairman
of the Board for International _
Broadcasting, which runs Radio
Free Europe/Radio Liberty, the
domestic truth-telling news service
for the Soviet and Eastern Bloc peo-
ples. . .
In discussing Dr. Glenn Campbell
as a possible U.N. ambassador,. I
must, as they say in the British
House of Commons, first declare my
interest. I am a stipendiary of the
Hoover Institution at Stanford Uni-
versity over which Dr. Campbell has
presided since 1960. However,, my
being at Hoover has enabled me to.
watch him in action. He has helped
make this research organization and
library one of the most important
scholarship and public policy cen-
ters in the world because of its high
academic standards. He is also
chairman of the President's Foreign i
Intelligence Oversight Board, which
means he knows where the bodies
are buried.
A it possible appointee is Mrs.
Anne Armstrong, whose long diplo-
matic and political experience has
been capped by her chairmanship of
the President's Foreign Intelligence
Advisory Board, which also 'mon-
itors the Central Intelligence ;
'en Mrs. Armstrong 'was an
effective ambassador to Great Brit-
ain during the Ford administration.
She is an executive at the,
Georgetown Center for Strategic
and International Studies, where she
is also professorial lecturer in diplo-
macy.
Mr. Reagan's designee will have
his work cut out, because the United
States has embarked upon a serious
re-examination of the relationship
between national interest and con-
tinued membership in the interns-
'tional system of organizations. We
have withdrawn from UNESCO and
have just informed the World. Court
that the United States regards the
court's assumption of jurisdiction on :.
Nicaragua as an intrusion.
It also should be remembered
that Mrs. Kirkpatrick on several
occasions has told the U.N. General
Assembly -that if that organization
thoved to expel Israel" American
withdrawal from the United Nations
inevitably would follow. More and
more, the. serious work of peace-
keeping is being conducted outside'
the United.Nations;- between the-
U.S.S.R. and its allies on one side and
the united States and its NATO allies
on the other. 'Such issues as Soviet
aggression in Afghanistan or Soviet
violations of human rights are no
longer -attended to at the United
Nations..:Even the. five-year war
between Iranand Iraq is ignored
there.
If the United Nations is being .
downgraded .by the U.S. 'foreign
policy establishment as an impor :
tant institution, .why should anybody
want the job as ambassador?
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