1980

Kenton W. Keith, Country Affairs Officer for Israel, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq

 

Senator John C. Danforth, U.S. Senator from Missouri

Topic: The problem of world hunger and possible solutions

 

Dr. Desmond Morton, historian from Erindale College, University of Toronto

Topic: The State of the Union: Canada

 

Charles W. Freeman, Jr., Director of the Office of People’s Republic of China and Mongolian Affairs in the State Department

Topic: Current U.S.-China Relations

 

Christopher Van Hollen, Sr., Associate of the Carnegie Endowment

Topic: The Persian Gulf: Will the Carter Doctrine Work?

1981

Senator John C. Danforth, U.S. Senator from Missouri

 

James C. Humes, author of Churchill, Speaker of the Century

 

James W. Symington, former member of Congress and former Chief of Protocol, U.S. Department of State

 

Dr. Marliesse Dobberthien, Head of Women’s Department of Baden-Wurttemberg, Stuttgart, Germany

 

Emilio Gasparini, economic expert in the Soviet Affairs Section of NATO’s Economic Directorate

 

Stephen E. Eisenbraun, Country Officer for India

 

Senator Nancy Landon Kassebaum, U.S. Senator from Kansas

1982

General Lew Allen, Jr., U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff

Topic: Balance of nuclear power

 

Ernesto Rivas-Gallont, Embassy of El Salvador, Washington, D.C.

 

Donald C. Tice, Executive Secretary, U.S. Delegation to the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START)

Topic: SALT negotiations

 

Jacques-Yvan Morin, Deputy Prime Minister of Quebec

Topic: Quebec: A Modest Hinge Between Two Worlds

 

Mark Tessler, professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; lived in and did research of Tunisia, Israel, and Morocco

 

H.E. J.H. Lubbers, Ambassador of the Netherlands to U.S.

Topic: Tariff barriers

1983

Mrs. Inga Thorsson, Undersecretary of State for Disarmament in the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs

Topic: The U.S. and the Soviet Union

 

Hiroshi Wagatsuma, Japanese scholar

Topic: Japanese and U.S. cultural differences

 

John H. Kelly, Senior Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Public Affairs Bureau

 

Walter Eytan, Chairman of Israel Council of International Relations, Chairman of Israel-France Association

Topic: Middle East peace proposal

 

Morton Pomeranz, attorney specializing in international trade and investment, former President’s Special Representative for Trade Negotiations

Topic: World trade and global balance

 

Klaus C. Engelen, international correspondent for Handelsblatt

Topic: Worldwide implications of U.S. domestic policy

 

Robert L. Payton, President of Exxon Education Foundation

Topic: Foreign Aid: What Role for Private Philanthropy?

 

Richard D. Robinson, Professor, Sloan School of Management, MIT, International Business expert

 

Dr. Benjamin Spock, world’s most famous baby doctor

Topic: Today’s Child

 

Colonel Otis F. Bryan, Jr., Deputy Director of the Air Force Issues Team, The Pentagon

 

Sir Oliver Wright, British Ambassador to U.S.

Topic: World Trade Week

 

Lt. General Robert C. Kingston, Commander of the Rapid Deployment Joint Task Force, MacDill Air Force Base, Florida

 

Emory C. Swank, retired foreign official and president of the Cleveland Council on World Affairs

 

Michihiko Kunihiro, Economic Minister, Embassy of Japan, Washington, D.C.

1984

Harold Saunders, former Assistant Secretary of State for Near East Affairs, former Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research

 

Senator Thomas F. Eagleton, U.S. Senator from Missouri

Topic: The Road After Lebanon

 

Brigadier General Duane H. Erickson, Director of the International Staff, Inter-American Board, Washington, D.C.

 

David Winder, Roving Third World Correspondent, The Christian Science Monitor

 

Stephen W. Bosworth, Chairman of the Foreign Policy Planning Council at the State Department

Topic: The U.S.S.R. Under Cherneko: Hard Choices for Moscow and Washington

 

Morris Draper, former Special Presidential Emissary to the Middle East

Topic: Negotiating the Middle East

 

Robert H. Gayner, Consul General of Canada at Chicago, former ambassador to Iraq

Topic: Saudia Arabia and Jordan: Kingdoms at the Crossroads

 

H.E. Bernard Vernier-Palliez, French Ambassador to the U.S., former president of French car manufacturer Renault

Topic: The American-French Connection in the 1980s

 

Surendra Nihal Singh, Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Topic: The U.S., Pakistan, and India

 

Robert Cuddihy, Senior Journalist, Scottish Television

Topic: Britain and European Defense

 

Dr. Harry H. Kitano, Professor of Sociology & Social Welfare, UCLA

Topic: Lessons from the Relocation: Japanese-Americans During World War II

 

Ambassador Edward L. Rowny, Chairman, U.S. Delegation Strategic Arms Reduction Talks

Topic: Arms Control Today: Hopes and Realities

 

William G. Hyland, Editor, Foreign Affairs, former Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs

Topic: Post-Election Foreign Policy