Word: ambassador
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Confined to Barracks. The bombing of Sakiet-Sidi-Youssef seemed this week to have shattered Bourguiba's last hope of friendship with France. Within hours, he had recalled his ambassador from Paris, ordered the French to evacuate the Bizerte naval base, directed that the 18,000 French troops still garrisoned in Tunisia be confined to their barracks, and requested their removal from the country as soon as possible. Said Bourguiba grimly: "We are not at war with France, but we can consider that today's aggression marks the opening of hostilities...
...cavalry as a "security measure." But some 600 students defiantly rallied to give departing Professor Kubali an ovation, carried him on their shoulders to his car despite his urging that they disperse. In Istanbul on a Ford Foundation project, Columbia University Law Professor Emeritus Elliott Cheatham urged the U.S. ambassador to intervene on Kubali's behalf because "I am sure Professor Kubali's attendance at the Conference on the Rule of Law at the University of Chicago last year strengthened his decision to speak forthrightly...
...floor of the nine-story Ambassador Hotel in Kansas City, Mo. is barred to casual visitors. When an elevator passes the floor below or there are footsteps on the stairs, lights flash, bells ring and a guard springs alert in a room lined with pistols, riot guns and tear-gas bombs. Once divided into six apartments, the entire floor has been remodeled into a top-security weekend retreat. Its tenant: Lieut. General Rafael ("Ramfis") Trujillo Jr., 28, the nonflying (by father's orders) chief of the Dominican air force...
Safe & Comfortable. After his usual two-day sojourn at the Ambassador last week, Ramfis climbed into a dark green Cadillac and rolled northwest along State Highway 45 to Fort Leavenworth, Kans. His driver stuck to a prescribed route, minding strict instructions to "watch the high bluffs [where a sniper might lurk] and proceed swiftly." Through the day Ramfis sat attentively with his 620 classmates at the U.S. Army's Command and General Staff College...
...months ago Ceylon was struck by a major natural disaster. Blinding monsoon rains washed half a million people from their homes and breached 500 of the earthen irrigation tanks that the civilization of antiquity bequeathed to the cultivators of the island's food crops. U.S. Ambassador Maxwell Gluck called on Washington for emergency help. Flocks of helicopters from the aircraft carrier Princeton dropped food that saved the lives of hundreds and, incidentally, gave the U.S. a needed boost in popular esteem...