Word: 38th
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Once talks began in earnest, the Secretary-General met separately each day with Parsons and Argentine Deputy Foreign Minister Enrique Ros in his 38th-floor U.N. suite. As time went on, the Peruvian-born diplomat played an increasingly active part, sometimes suggesting directly ideas of his own. He remained pleasant and courteous, but the strain began to show: his color was gray, his eyes were hollow behind his glasses, and he stooped as he walked...
...position, which Pérez de Cuéllar passed on directly to Argentine Deputy Foreign Minister Ros. Late the following evening the Argentines came to the U.N. tower with Galtieri's response to the British ultimatum. Near midnight, Sir Anthony made his now familiar trek to the 38th-floor suite, where Pérez de Cuéllar translated the Argentines' Spanish-language text for him. The text and an official U.N. translation were sent to the British mission the next day. The biggest problem at that delicate stage of negotiations, observed...
...negotiating technique was to meet with each envoy separately. Sometimes the emissaries would come twice a day to his spacious 38th-floor office overlooking the East River. The Secretary-General would make an oral presentation to each on a point or two and then ask for comments. Each representative would then communicate with his home government. When the replies were disappointing, the Secretary-General would look for "some conciliatory U.N. formula." His worst fear, he said, was "the danger of a great military incident in the area. I am always wondering whether one of the parties would withdraw from...
...with the Red Sox organization for the Old Boys of Spring. Tommy has been hustling around Fenway Park for 50 years, come this summer, since he began working the concessions as a 16-year-old. For 42 years he has been on the Red Sox payroll. This is his 38th spring training...
...budding playwright and a waiter, was stabbed last summer by a restaurant patron, the fascination focused on the killer: Jack Henry Abbott, Marxist, existentialist, prison murderer, author (In the Belly of the Beast) and, beginning a few weeks before Adan's killing, literary celebrity (see ESSAY). On his 38th birthday last week in Manhattan, Abbott was found guilty of manslaughter. Because he admitted that he had killed Adan, the verdict was considered a victory for the defense. Said Defense Lawyer Ivan Fisher: "When they said not guilty on murder two, I was enormously relieved. I was flying." His client...