NEW TEAM AT U.N: COMMON ROOTS AND PHILOSOPHIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000201110092-5
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• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 21, 2010
• Sequence Number: 92
• Publication Date: March 3, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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UNITED NATIONS. N.Y., March 2=
The new team running the American mis- -
sioa here- resembles an- extended family.
whose lineage - extends-- from Jeane,J: -.
Kirkpatrick, thechief delegate.';
`'There is Cart Gershrnan, a counselor.}
who sits in the office directly across from
Mrs. Kirkpatrick- Like her, be-made his
mark.,Urging ..a. stern, -anti-Communist.
:stance. in.. Commentary, magazine,--: the.
neoconservative bible. They first met at a
gathering "of.the Coalition for-a%-Demo..
Majority, a grasp aimed at.rescu-.:
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who read hisdoctaral t>;esis. Mr. Sorzano-
was arreseerch?assistant in the prepare '
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the delegation and a career Foreign Serv-
` ice officer: Buda a mission whose direc.
tors often echo each other, he said 'tam
compatible:'"' The = 39-year-old. Mr.. Bra-
meat is .flueatin seven languages, includ-
ing,Russian'and twoChinese dialects,
and comes here from a post in the .Nab
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? share his philosophy,'.' Mrs-.Kirkpatrick
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doubt,-we'll be on the secure telephone! Brooklyn College and has a master's de-
and -. telex requesting guidance. `' The greefrom Maryland, has served in Spain:
guidance; he and the rest.-of the team : South Vietnam; Indonesia, Singapore dnd ?
make clear,.will come from Secretary of twice in the Soviet Union. His other Ian-.
i_ State Alexander M.HaigJr. ;=e i uages are Indonesian, French, Spanish
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NEW YORK YORK TINES
3 MARCH 1981
R4-1- and-her: aides Vstieess .vi 'Mrs. ; What will she do with the six Security!
Kirkpatrick ' calls their' . intention "to
speak here:with'.greater clarity.--=.But
precisely what they will be clear about is
still. obscure. At: her first news confer-
ence, held last week, Mrs: Kirkpatrick
-said that the Administration was still re-
viewing every foreign policy question,
from the global -economic. bargain. that
poorer,countries are seeking to a Western
plan for independence of South-West Af-
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predecessor, who ? voted is .-the; Security-
.Ccuail against expanding Israeli settle- sists the notion ."that it doesn't matter
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president for public relations for the Pub- Mrs Kirkpatrick and .her aides slip
lic Broadcasting Service easilyinto? the patriotic language of an
. This will be an -effective team,. more I earler,era; _ ' < y
so than in the past," said Mr.-Brement,
the deputy, It. will be marked, he said; by
i'ccnsistency" and "reliability.;'. r
Mr Gershman, who is 37,. has a mas-
ter's degree in education from Harvard
to go with his Yale diploma- Last year he
was ; a resident- scholar at Freedom
Hbuse, a private organization in New
:York, writing on totalitarian threats to
American democracy. For six years, he
ran Social Democrats, -USA,-a political
action group - supporting ; liberals : con-
cerded with Soviet power.-
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:Mrs: Kirkpatrick, who is 54,: is particu-
larlyuncomfortable with commonUnited
Nations terms. like. "tile third. world,"
r'?North South".aid "nonaligned." These
terms. she said,. cover groups of nations
"than are- not'"a monolithic; Integrated
whole" but.. disparate?nations with dis-
parat's, interests.": What she seeks;: she
usaid,is'.ainceptuaiclarity."_ .s? --+
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Council -members from - Latin America, t
Asia and Africa who typically work outs
common positions as members of the
third world?
"We bargain with them, she replied'
briskly. But this will. not stop her from
seeking to deal with the six separately,
through the United States embassies in!
their capitals. "I will use all the legal,t
morally acceptable tools-at hand," shel
said. "The notion that-I will be Less con-4
cerried with the so-cal led third world than
my predecessors is absurd'
. "I fell on ? the side I considered pro- I
American," .be said. -"I- recognized the i
nature of totalitarianism:'--;.-rte
Even aprofessional Iike Mr Bremenn
talks in a similar fashion. The new team:
he said, shares'"a.basic-feeling that;
reflect our vision oftheworld." `'' "'~
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