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Article: Alan Keyes & the Question of Justice; State's Point Man on South Africa, His Battles-and His Sudden Resignation
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- The Washington Post
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- September 18, 1987
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Alan L. Keyes is outrageous. And he loves it.
Perhaps it is something in his stance, his somewhat regal
manner, so self-assured-his mischievous smile, the casual, almost
mocking way he touches a flame to the tip of his Dunhill-that
suggests a relish for combat.
Keyes is black, conservative, the assistant secretary of state
who has emerged as a leading spokesman for the administration's
"constructive engagement" policy toward South Africa as well as a
leading architect of U.S. policy toward the United Nations. He has a
reputation as a maverick in the State Department, a hard-line
Reaganaut amid bland striped-pants diplomats, some of whom would just
as soon see him curbed.
Now their ...