Word: ambassador
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ABMs and Germany. The threat in the East has placed increasing pressure on Soviet leaders to seek accommodation with the West. When the new British ambassador presented his credentials in Moscow last week, Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko told him that it was time to settle outstanding differences between Britain and Russia. Presumably that attitude extends to other countries in the West as well. Priority business with the West includes Russia's effort to negotiate an ABM truce with the U.S., reach a settlement of the Viet Nam war and prevent West Germany from ever becoming a nuclear power...
...formal visit designed to put forth the Arab views. Hussein's visit is the latest round in the diplomatic minuet over the Middle East that brought Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban to Washington in mid-March to outline Israel's position, and had Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin shuttling back and forth almost daily last week between his embassy and the State Department...
...been the Japanese ambassador to Iran, Poland and now Argentina, and he had served the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo for 37 impeccable years, but last week 59-year-old Ichiro Kawasaki found himself sacked for that most undiplomatic sin of all-speaking out. Was he guilty of gossiping about the Shah, uncovering the truth behind Polish jokes, or detailing the gaucheness of the gauchos? Not a bit of it. All Kawasaki did was to write a book, Japan Unmasked, about his fellow Japanese...
...role in the world. "Postwar Japan is not likely to assume political leadership in Asia, let alone of the world. Racially, ideologically and militarily, the present-day Japan is simply not equal to so grandiose a task." True or not, it was hardly the thing for an ambassador...
...words were those of onetime Greek Diplomat Georgos S. Seferiades, 69, who under the pen name George Seferis won the 1963 Nobel Prize for literature for his lyrical poetry and his "deep feeling for the Hellenic world of culture." Seferiades has lived in seclusion in Athens since retiring as ambassador to London in 1962. For the past two years he has published nothing in Greece as a political protest against the military regime running the country...