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FÉDÉRATION INTERNATIONALE DE FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION

Dr Henry A. Kissinger
26th Floor
350 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10022
USA

MAR 12 1996

ZURICH,

12th March 1996

JSB/vm/mj

Dear Dr Kissinger,

We are pleased to inform you that the 50th Ordinary FIFA Congress will be held in Zurich on 3rd and 4th July 1996. This is an extremely important event for FIFA and since it is an anniversary congress, we are happy to be able to organise it in the town which has served as a base for our offices ever since 1932.

We are proud to announce that you will be honoured with the FIFA Order of Merit at the opening ceremony due to begin at 16.00 h at the Kongresshaus on 3 July 1996. Several other distinguished guests will be attending along with representatives from our 193 member national associations. The ceremony will be followed by cocktails and an official dinner party, the keynote of which will be cordiality and fair play as a means of tightening the bonds between sportsmen and sportswomen around the world.

We trust that we shall have the pleasure of welcoming you to this occasion and look forward to hearing from you.

J. S. Blatter

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For the Good of the Game

Mr Henry A. Kissinger
Twenty-Sixth Floor
350 Park Avenue
**NEW YORK** NY 10022
USA

AUG 2 2 1996

19 August 1996

JSB/mj

Dear Henry,

Thank you for your very welcome letter dated 7 August 1996. I myself have also been travelling since our last Congress - to the Olympic Football Tournaments in Florida and Georgia, followed up with a short but relaxing holiday.

I am happy to hear you and Nancy enjoyed the opening ceremony of our 50th Congress. Our biennial Congress is the equivalent of a family reunion, but one at which each member is free to speak, where old friendships may be renewed and new ones forged. It certainly was a splendid and moving occasion and your off-the-cuff speech, delivered with typical modesty and sincerity, was regarded as one of the highlights of the evening.

On behalf of the President and 197 associates of FIFA, I should like you to know how honoured we feel that you, as a patron of peace, a man of the world and a follower of our sport, have become a trusted and revered member of our extended, international family.

Thank you for the blessing of your friendship and the privilege of your presence.

Yours sincerely,
FIFA

J. S. Blatter
General Secretary & CEO

P.O. Box 85, Hitzigweg 11, 8030 Zurich, Switzerland, Telephone 41-1/384 9595, Telefax 41-1/384 9696
Internet http://www.fifa.com

HENRY A. KISSINGER

August 1, 1996

Dear Mr. President, Elect:

I want to tell you how much I enjoyed meeting you at the Council of the Americas and then again at the Regency. You take over at a critical period in your country's history. From our conversations I gained great confidence in your dedication to moving your country forward and in your ability to do so.

Please feel free to contact me if I can be of any service. And when I visit your beautiful country, I shall take the liberty of trying to arrange an appointment to see you.

Every good wish,

Henry A. Kissinger

President Leonel Fernandez
The Dominican Republic

HAK: Sorry to pester you, but did you intend for this to reach him after the Aug. 16 inauguration, or should it be addressed to President-Elect?

If okay, I'll autopen and sent to Mr. De la Renta.

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TRANSLATION - jw

May 15, 1996

Dear Prof. Kissinger:

Warmest thanks for the manuscript for the Vranitzky Festschrift. I
have already thanked your secretary--who was especially cooperative--by
separate letter.

The piece is currently being printed and will appear in approximately
five weeks. It will then be my pleasure to forward to you an author's
copy of the entire book.

I would like to inquire whether you might like to come to the opening
of the Salzburger Festival July 20th or to one of the performances during
its duration. I would also be happy to look after you on another date
during a visit to Vienna and perhaps organize any discussions you'd like.

The "demand" for Henry Kissinger is very great, and I know that you perhaps
consider this a burden, but I am simply trying to give you some pleasure.

In the meantime, with kind regards and once again warmest thanks,

THE POOL ROOM AT

THE FOUR SEASONS
99 EAST 52nd STREET, NEW YORK CITY 10022, 754-9494

March 25, 1996

Dr. Henry Kissinger
350 Park Avenue

MAR 27 1996 New York, New York 10022

Dear Dr. Kissinger,

I was hoping to mention this to you during lunch some time this week, but judging from the reservations, it doesn't look like you'll be joining us.

Enclosed is a copy of an ad we'd like to run. As you'll quickly notice, this ad identifies you as one of our favorite guests.

At your convenience, please let me know if it is ok for us to include your name in the ad.

January 30, 1996

Mr. Kempton Dunn
Director of Membership Affairs
Council of Foreign Relations
58 East 68th Street
New York, NY 10021

FEB 14 1996

Dear Mr. Dunn:

My application for the Council's term membership program should be with your staff. My sponsor is Mr. Albert Gordon, with whom I started my career on Wall Street and have since remained close. Seconding letters were written by Dr. Henry Kissinger, George Vojta, Gustav Ranis, Bill Turner, Dick Voell, and John Rhodes. A list of these and other members who I know is attached.

As you will see from my updated biography, I have enjoyed continued success at Bankers Trust as Managing Director and head of the Bond Department. The department is responsible for managing over $30 billion in assets for a global customer base. Our customers include some of the premier pension plans in the US, including AT&T, Chrysler, General Motors, Xerox, New York City, Chicago, Detroit, the states of New York, Maine and Louisiana. Over 30% of the US pension plans with over $100 million in assets employ Bankers Trust's Global Investment Management Division. As a member of the senior management group, I am responsible for maintaining relationships with many of these leading planned sponsors.

As head of Banker's Bond Department, I oversee our global investments made on behalf of our institutional customers. Although I need to be current on the world financial markets, I am most actively involved in the investments in high yield corporates and the "emerging" economies. I have been most involved as an investor in the economic restructuring of several Latin American economies, the privatization of Eastern European companies, and the volatile expansion of the Far East Asian economies.

Most recently, I was appointed to GIM's Senior Management Group, which is the management team that oversees the investment management business. I have enclosed a marketing brochure on the division.

My background is largely international; I am fluent in three languages and have studied two others; I am professionally committed to the global markets; my interest in the Council is both personal and professional; and I believe that I can and really want to add to the Council's discussions. Thank you for your consideration.

STEPHEN C. FREIDHEIM

480 Cognewaugh Road
Greenwich, CT 06807
(203) 625-9771

PROFESSIONAL CAREER

**1993-Present**
**Bankers Trust**
Managing Director

* Manage the Global Investment Management Division's (GIM) Bond Department, which is responsible for investing approximately $30 billion in fixed income assets for BT's fiduciary client base. Bankers Trust is the second largest investment manager in the United States.

* In April 1995 became the youngest member of GIM's senior management group.

* Created and continue to manage the Global High Yield Group, which is currently responsible for making all equity and debt investments in Latin America, East Asia, Africa and Eastern and Central Europe.

**1990-1993**
**Nomura Securities International**
Senior Vice President

* Director of Research and Trading, and Member of Board of Directors for Nomura Corporate Research & Asset Management, Inc. (NCRAM)

* Directed a nine-person research and trading team in high yield. NCRAM became one of the world's largest and most profitable managers of high yield bonds. Became the youngest-ever senior vice president at Nomura by 27.

**1986-1990**
**Kidder, Peabody & Co., Inc.**

* Vice President, Director of Research Kidder, Peabody High Yield Asset Management Company (KPHYAM).

* Co-founded KPHYAM. Engineered the financial structure for the first public Collateralized Bond Obligation (CBO), which was awarded 1990 Deal of the Year by *Institutional Investor*, International Edition. Marketed high yield bonds and the CBO product in the U.S., Japan, Europe and the Middle East. Our client base was mostly large, foreign financial institutions.

* Teacher at the Kidder, Peabody High Yield Institute, a monthly seminar in Tokyo for institutional investors (1988-90).

* Became the youngest-ever Vice President at Kidder by age 24.

Biography for Council on Foreign Relations

Bankers Trust Company

One Bankers Trust Plaza, New York, New York 10006

Stephen C. Freidheim
Managing Director

Tel: 212-250-9877
Fax: 212-250-2611

January 30, 1996

Mr. Kempton Dunn
Director of Membership Affairs
Council on Foreign Relations
58 East 68th Street
New York, NY 10021

Dear Mr. Dunn:

As you will see from my updated biography, I have enjoyed continued success at Bankers Trust as Managing Director and head of the investment management's Bond Department. The department is responsible for managing over $30 billion in assets for a global customer base. Our customers include some of the premier pension plans in the US, including AT&T, Chrysler, General Motors, Xerox, New York City, Chicago, Detroit, the states of New York, Maine and Louisiana. Over 30% of the US pension plans with over $100 million in assets employ Bankers Trust's Global Investment Management Division. As a member of the senior management group, I am responsible for maintaining relationships with many of these leading planned sponsors.

As head of Banker's fiduciary bond department, I oversee our global investments made on behalf of our institutional customers. Although I need to be current on the world financial markets, I am most actively involved in the investments in high yield corporates and the "emerging" economies. I have been most involved as an investor in the economic restructuring of several Latin American economies, the privatization of Eastern European companies, and the volatile expansion of the Far East Asian economies. Most recently, I was appointed to GIM's Senior Management Group, which is the management team that oversees the investment management business.

cc:
A. Gordon
H. Kissinger
G. Ranis
J. Rhodes
B. Turner
D. Voell
G. Vojta

STEPHEN C. FREIDHEIM

PROFESSIONAL CAREER

* Manage the Global Investment Management Division's (GIM) Bond Department and Emerging Markets Group, which together are responsible for investing approximately $30 billion in fixed income and equity assets for BT's fiduciary client base. Bankers Trust is the second largest investment manager in the United States.

**1986-1990**
**Kidder, Peabody & Co., Inc.**
Vice President

COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS

Selected List of Members Who Know Me

<table><thead><tr><td>Person</td><td>Affiliation</td><td>Relationship</td></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Paul Anderson</td><td>Booz Allen &amp; Hamilton</td><td>Known for 19 years</td></tr><tr><td>## Sherman Baldwin</td><td>Yale University Classmate</td><td>Played on soccer team together for 4 years</td></tr><tr><td>John Blum</td><td>Yale University Professor</td><td>Student in one of his classes my junior year</td></tr><tr><td>* Max C. Chapman, Jr.</td><td>Nomura Securities International (CEO)</td><td>Worked for Max for 7 years.</td></tr><tr><td>## Kristina Perkin-Davison</td><td>Bankers Trust, Global Inv. Mgmt.</td><td>Worked with for 2 years</td></tr><tr><td>Cyrus Freidheim</td><td>Booz Allen &amp; Hamilton (Vice Chairman)</td><td>My father</td></tr><tr><td>Lou Gerstner</td><td>IBM (CEO)</td><td>Have met on a couple occasions as an investor in his company</td></tr><tr><td>** Albert Gordon</td><td>Kidder, Peabody (Hon. Chairman)</td><td>Worked at Kidder together. Tokyo trip in 1988. My sponsor.</td></tr><tr><td>John M. Harris</td><td>Rockerfeller Financial Services</td><td>Know Well</td></tr><tr><td>Theodore Hesburgh</td><td>Notre Dame University</td><td>First met over a family dinner in Brazil in 1981.</td></tr><tr><td>J. Tomilson Hill</td><td>Blackstone</td><td>Acquaintance</td></tr><tr><td>Dick Holbrooke</td><td>Ambassador to Germany</td><td>Met in 1992 at a cocktail party in his honor (I was a client of Lehman Bros).</td></tr><tr><td>Rev. Jesse Jackson</td><td>Rainbow Coalition</td><td>Became a family friend through his son, Jonathon. Known for 6 years.</td></tr><tr><td>* Henry Kissinger</td><td>Kissinger Associates</td><td>Met with him twice; the last to discuss my application to the CFR.</td></tr><tr><td>Robert McFarlane</td><td>McFarlane Associates</td><td>Recently met at Jiang, Zemin lunch; have continued our dialogue.</td></tr><tr><td>Newton Minow</td><td>Lawyer</td><td>Met through my father.</td></tr><tr><td>* Gustav Ranis</td><td>Yale University Professor</td><td>Studied under Professor Ranis in the Economics Department of Yale.</td></tr><tr><td>Steven Rattner</td><td>Lazard Freres</td><td>Acquainted through my involvement as a client of his company.</td></tr><tr><td>* John Rhodes</td><td>Booz Allen &amp; Hamilton</td><td>Known for 17 years</td></tr><tr><td>Felix Rohatyn</td><td>Lazard Freres</td><td>Acquainted through my involvement as a client of his company.</td></tr><tr><td>Charles Sanford, Jr.</td><td>Bankers Trust (Chairman of the Board)</td><td>Charlie takes an active role in BT's investment management business.</td></tr><tr><td>*# Roger Stone</td><td>Stone Container (CEO &amp; Chairman)</td><td>Have met on several occasions as an investor in his company</td></tr><tr><td>Peter Tarnoff</td><td>Under Secretary of State (former President of CFR)</td><td>Had breakfast together in 1993 to discuss my application to the CFR.</td></tr><tr><td>* Bill Turner</td><td>Thunderbird (Former U.S. Ambassador to OECD)</td><td>Friend of the family. Known for 17 years.</td></tr><tr><td>* Richard Voell</td><td>Rockefeller Group</td><td>First met with Dick in 1993.</td></tr><tr><td>* George Vojta</td><td>Bankers Trust (Vice Chairman)</td><td>Have worked under George on various projects, Emerging Europe in particular.</td></tr><tr><td>Bruce Wasserstein</td><td>Wasserstein Securities</td><td>Acquainted through my involvement as a client of his company.</td></tr></tbody></table>

* Have written supporting letters.

** Sponsoring member.

# Not a CFR member.

## Term Member

List of Members for the Council on Foreign Relations

~~Prof~~ Dr. Margarita Mathiopoulos

Großer Hillen 4
30559 Hannover
Germany

Private Fax 49-511-9524188
direct phone line at the office
49-511-361-5402
Handy 49-171-3397580

Dr. Henry Kissinger
Former Secretary of State
Kissinger Associates
350 Park Avenue
New York, N. Y. 10022

Fax 001-212-759-0042

7 October, 1996

Dear Dr. Kissinger.

It was wonderful to see you again. Thank you so much for
taking the time to see me. I enjoyed thoroughly our
conversation and your great sense of humor.

I am especially grateful for your kindness and help to
support my professional plans in joining an American firm,
Insurance Company or Investment Bank. I will never forget
this generous gesture and encouragement of you.

As I briefly mentioned to you I would very much like to
join General Electric. I believe that GE is one of the
finest and most successful US-Companies. It is my
understanding that GE needs a number of people now to join
its London based European business development teams. They
are looking for senior people focusing particulary on the
high growth German market and handling complete projects
from identification of strategic targets through to
completion of acquisitions and investment across Europe.
To identify new business opportunities in East and West and
to work out a good deal is exactly where my expertise lies
and what I would love to do. Through my previous
assignement at IBM Stuttgart, my work at ASPEN Berlin
 member of the board of directors) and my present position
 at NORD/LB Hannover I was able to build a network of
 highlevel international contacts in business, politics and
 the world of media (Germany, US, Britain, Spain, France,
 Italy, Greece, Turkey, the Netherlands, Central and Eastern
 Europe, Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, the Balkans,
 Rumania, Bulgaria and the Baltic States), which could be of
 use to the European operations of US Companies. I could
 further think of joining AT&T (which is also expanding its

business operations in Germany), GM, the American
International Group, Morgan or any other Investment Bank or
an Aerospace firm. Concerning the locations in Europe, I am
very flexible - I don't mind to move to London, Paris,
Amsterdam, Frankfurt or Prague.

After almost five years of successful engagement and
accomplishments at NORD/LB I feel that I need new
challenges, a new entrepreneurial environment which anglo-
saxon companies can offer, and new tasks in new teams where
I can grow.

Certainly I can come back to New York or any other city
also at short notice if you think that it is useful to have
meetings in the United States.

Again, please let me assure you, Dr. Kissinger, my
gratefullness for your special kindness.

Enclosed please find my CV. I look very much forward to
hearing from you.

With respect

and warmest regards

PROF. DR. Margarita MATHIOPOULOS

PERSONAL

Born 1957 in Bonn. German Citizenship. German Abitur (1975).

Married to Dr. Friedbert Pflüger, Member of the Bundestag

CURRENT POSITION

Senior Vice President

Head of Corporate Communications, Marketing and International Relations Division
of a major German bank

Professor for American Foreign Policy and International Politics at the University
of Braunschweig

EDUCATION

University of Bonn, Ph. D. 1996 in Political Science/ Contemporary

History/Psychology. M. A. 1980. Coursework in Law and Economics.

Harvard University, graduate research student at the Government Department,
1980-1982. Research and coursework for Ph. D. in American Politics, the American
Presidency and American Business Administration.

Further studies and research at the Universities of Florence (1978), Sorbonne
(1979), Stanford (1989) and at the Institute for East-West Studies (N. Y. 1990)

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

International Banking, Industry and Business/ Government Relations/ International
Organizations/Press and Media

since 1992 Senior Vice President
Head of Corporate Communications, Marketing and International
Relations Division at a major German bank
(Participation in the weekly board meetings as well as in
the supervisory-board meetings; report directly to
the CEO of the bank; development and operative realization of
corporate communications and marketing strategies for the
national and international business activities of the bank;
development of corporate international relations stategies;
business development: identification of targets and new
opportunities and completion of acquisitions and investments
in cooperation with M & A and Corporate Finance Department;
customer relations/investor relations on an international level;
political and economic analysis/evaluation of international
markets/political advisory role for the Board of Management of the
Bank; highlevel political and business networking in East and West.)

1987 -1992 Associate Director and Member of the Board of Directors of the ASPEN Institute Berlin for East-West Relations (Specialized in the analysis of US-European relationship, of Eastern and Central Europe, the Czech Republic, the former GDR, Poland, Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria, the Baltic States, and the Balkans. Chaired international highlevel conferences in Paris, Budapest, Bonn, West-Berlin and East-Berlin, Washington and Moscow. Responsibility for the Budget and the Personnel of the Institute). Guest Lecturer at the Free University of Berlin/DAAD-Guest-Professor for American Politics and International Relations at Humbold University of Berlin.

1986-1987 Manager at the Corporate Press and Communication Department of the IBM-Headquaters in Stuttgart (Responsibility for the German economic and science press corps; analysis of the German IT-market; speechwriting for the CEO of IBM Germany).

1975- 1985 Journalist for German papers (European Economics Editor) and television (WDR I/III)

## LANGUAGES

- German/Greek, native languages

- English almost like native language

- French fluent

- Italian, good

## BOOK-PUBLICATIONS

On the Fragility of Democracy, Munich 1995

Rendezvous with GDR - Political Myths and their Demythologyzation, Düsseldorf 1994

The End of the Bonn Republic - A European View, Stuttgart 1993, (paper back edition Düsseldorf 1995)

The New Europe - A European-American Dialogue (ed.), Bonn/Berlin 1992

History and Progress. In Search of the European and American Mind, New York 1989; (Foreword Gordon A. Craig) - (German edition, Paderborn/Munich/Vienna/Zurich 1987)

## Honors and Awards

1989 - 1990 Körber Foundation, Hamburg, Körber-Fellow
1989 - 1990 German Marshall Fund grant for research
1981 - 1983 Friedrich-Naumann-Foundation, Bonn, doctoral fellowship
1980 - 1981 Fulbright Foundation, assistance for Studies at Harvard University
since 1995 Honorary Professorship for American Foreign Policy and International Politics at the University of Braunschweig

## MEMBERSHIPS

- Full member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Salzburg

- Member of the Board of Directors of the American Chamber of Commerce, Germany

- Member of the Board of Directors of the German Atlantic Association

LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY
Publishers

FREDRICA S. FRIEDMAN
Vice President
Executive Editor and
Associate Publisher

February 21, 1996

Dr. Henry Kissinger
Kissinger Associates
350 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10022

Dear Henry:

I am thrilled to have read the first four chapters of Volume III of your Memoirs. In a world of continuous change and selective memory, it is of vital importance to our present understanding, and for the historical record, to have your recollection of your years as Secretary of State and in the Ford Administration.

The material is in lucid form: Your writing is clear, precise, and always of interest. What this editorial letter will do is discuss the areas that will need some further attention to be fully realized, and the strengths that I see. The pages are also yellowslipped with specific suggestions and queries, and many compliments for a felicitous phrase, a trenchant insight. I regard it as a privilege to have the opportunity for this editorial dialogue.

To start, while I am sure you intend an Introduction to set the scene for this Volume of your Memoirs, because it is not yet here, I want to acknowledge the need for it. Those pages should deal with the decades between your writing Volumes I and II, and now III. Your description of the records you kept, the research you did, and your ability to hold onto the personal dimension of those perilous times will be important to the reader's understanding of how you write about such major experiences twenty years later.

Additionally, it is helpful for the audience, which will have less of an historical memory than the audience who came to the first two volumes, to have a brief reminder of your roles as National Security Advisor and Secretary of State to Richard Nixon, and your continuing that later role for Gerald Ford. As

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you did in Volume I, it would be useful to describe what this
volume will cover, both in events and personalities, and which
crises and issues you chose to highlight and why. Most
important, it is necessary to explain what is obvious for you,
but less so to your reader: That with Nixon president for 1969
to 1974, and Ford president for 1974 to 1977, one cannot
understand the Ford Presidency, without reference to what caused
it, the Nixon Presidency -- for they are forever interlocked as
a result of Watergate. Thus, some recapitulation or discussion
of this essential nexus belongs here, for it literally does
introduce the Ford Presidency. You handled that aspect
brilliantly and movingly in the Introduction and Conclusion to
YEARS OF UPHEAVAL.

The first chapter of Volume III, **GERALD FORD: The Good Man**, is revealing in the title you have chosen. What would round out your portrait here is threefold: More emphasis on the *momentous time it was* in America, with the transition for a demoralized nation from the first president forced to resign in our history to his successor -- cataclysmic for our citizens, and for our allies and foes abroad, in all its uncertainties; the *strengths of this Democracy* that produced "the good man" and kept the country stable (your stewardship -- see Volume II) during that horrific time; and then, most richly, *your own feelings and experiences* as you moved your allegiance and your responsibilities -- those you were officially charged with, and those that additionally came with daily contact with the president -- from Nixon to Ford. The reader would like to see incidents (an incident) of how you and Ford worked together, what you felt regarding both his level of skill and experience (or lack thereof) with regard to foreign affairs and how you were treated by Ford. Did he rely on your judgment and initiative more than Nixon, whose expertise was in foreign policy, and/or were you frustrated, after having worked with a President who understood foreign policy to work for a President whose area was domestic policy? The point, Henry, is to bring an immediacy and an intimacy to your Memoir, and to bring the readers closer to your own personal views of "The Good Man."

With chapter two, *The Transition*, perhaps there should be
another element to the title, since chapter one dealt with the
transition from the Nixon Presidency to the Ford Presidency. Is
the transition here to the new White House staff, for one
example? For the rest of the chapter, *examples* are necessary to
illustrate some of your points. Presently they are made as
statements, but without context for the audience, and thus they
are too abstract to have sufficient effect, and affect, on the
reader. Specifically, when you say (page 19) that Scowcroft had
"the precise reverse of my special qualities," we need you to
define those qualities; or when you describe Rumsfeld, "the most
accomplished bureaucratic infighter I encountered in Washington"
(page 23), we'd like to know your reaction (anger? frustration?)

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when you became "an obstacle to [his] advancement"; or when you
discuss how foreign policy was made effectively (page 35),
provide an example to give depth and point; or on page 61, when
you say after Ford's inauguration, "congressional elections
returned a majority representing views that had been rejected
overwhelmingly by the electorate in the presidential election
two years earlier," we need specificity for the point to have
either clarity or meaning; and perhaps most key, when you
acknowledge (page 64) you were consigned "to a role as a
surrogate president for foreign affairs for nearly a year," we
need to know what that meant to you, with examples that show it,
and then in which situations, and with regard to what issues,
how "Ford paid the price of having to deal with the inevitable
attacks on my authority." Also, when you note on pages 64 and
65, your "growing friendship" with Ford, and that you were
"personally close," show us incidents, and your own
interpretation of this interpersonal relationship. The reader
wants a continuing personal sense of you to trace though the
events of your Memoir.

Chapters 3 and 4, *Cyprus: The Unexpected Crisis*, and *The Challenge of Ethnic Conflict: Cyprus Erupts*, currently occupy 160+ pages, with a great deal of crossover between them. The focus seems perhaps disproportionate with regard to the international issues that will occupy later sections of this volume (China, the Soviet Union, European allies, and challenges, etc), for as you note on page 104, "By the end of the Ford Administration, Cyprus had become a second-order issue and remains so at this writing." Thus, I would suggest chapters 3 and 4 become one concise chapter (most of chapter 3 is said again in chapter 4), and I have indicated on the pages where material repeats, and where the focus is blurred or unnecessary. For example, the background that deals with the Johnson years need be only a page or two, summarized; that is true as well for pages 21 - 48, presently, a step-by-step account of Makarios on Cyprus. You have a superb explanation of ethnic wars, with Cyprus as the first example then of what we are seeing vividly now in the Middle East and Eastern Europe; that valuable perspective, as well as your role in managing this foreign policy crisis -- the first of the Ford Administration -- and your insights into how a small country can be a trigger point for larger international issues, are what matters most in these pages.

In sum, Henry, a fine and engrossing start to the third Volume
of your Memoirs. For the final draft, I would ask additionally
only whether this volume should have a discernable point of view
-- yes, setting the record straight, but to show what, for
precisely what end? That kind of direction, which may come in
future chapters, could add drama, and that ever-valuable
personal sensibility. For the best memoirs, as you know, are
characterized not just by events and processes but the author's

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Semana Dominicana en los Estados Unidos
Dominican Week in the United States

September 16, 1996

His Excellency
Mr. Henry Kissinger
c/o Oscar de la Renta
Oscar de la Renta, Ltd.
550 Seventh Avenue
New York, New York 10018

SEP 20 1996

Your Excellency:

It is with great respect that I address myself to you at this time to present an
initiative which has been designed to assist my country, the Dominican Republic.

As I believe you are aware, Dr. Kissinger, the Dominican Republic is
rapidly becoming involved in international commerce and, hence, is facing many
new and complex situations. It is with this thought in mind, and also due to your
warm association with our Country, that I am taking the liberty of approaching
you to invite you to become a new member of the "Friends of the Dominican
Republic Committee". If you were to accept, you would be in the company of
other outstanding personalities who in one way or the other have special ties to the
Dominican Republic:

Mr. Oscar De la Renta
Ms. Dominique Bluhdorn
Mr. Kent B. Foster
Mr. Alfonso Franjul
Mr. Theodore Kheel
Mr. Tom La Sorda

The most important contribution of the committee members is to lend the
prestige of their names; their experience and their possible contacts to those events
sponsored by Dominican organizations which are held in the United States. The
goal of the project is to strengthen and broaden, in a positive manner, the image of
the Dominican Republic in the United States. It is our hope that the committee
members will simply advise the leaders of the organizations involved in the
planning and promotion of their activities to ensure maximum effect.

Dominican Week has held a series of cultural, academic and commercial
events every year since 1991. These programs have awakened the interest, among
others, of the Dominican Community in New York, which happens to be one the
largest and fastest growing ethnic groups anywhere in the United States. The

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His Excellency
Mr. Henry Kissinger
September 17, 1996

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program has also provided successful promotional business opportunities in the Dominican Republic and has proven to be one of the most effective mechanisms for the promotion of the Dominican Republic's interests in the United States under the modern scope of International Relations.

The program for this year, among its many activities, has scheduled a Gala Dinner, organized by the Committee for the Dominican Week, which is to be held in Manhattan on the evening of the 4th of October. The dinner is to be held at the New York Historical Society and I have the honor of co-hosting this event with Mr. Oscar De la Renta. The dinner promises to be a very special occasion and the recently sworn-in President of the Dominican Republic, Dr. Leonel Fernandez, has confirmed his presence. It would, then, be an excellent opportunity to formally introduce you as a new member of the "Friends of the Dominican Republic Committee".

In addition to my personal assurances, we can provide evidence of the bona-fide nature of the Dominican Week, DAAF and the Committee to any person taking part in the event. If you would like any further information, please feel free to call upon the Dominican Embassy in Washington of the Consulate in New York. Of course you may also contact any of the present members of the Committee of Friends for their personal evaluation of the Dominican Week.

We would very much appreciate you advising us of your decision at the telephone number and the facsimile we list for your convenience (809) 535-9511, (809) 535-6649.

Please accept, in advance, my gratitude for your goodwill to join us in our efforts.

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