THREE WHO COULD SLIP INTO JEANE'S SHOES

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Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/08/09: CIA-RDP90-00552R000100920001-0 A-.RAPPEARED ON PA]E a-b 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? ConSnued oes Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/08/09: CIA-RDP90-00552R000100920001-0