Word: ambassador
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...these attacks will be made if they continue." The attacks have gone on, and while the U.S. combat toll fell off from 453 in the first week of the offensive to 336 in the second, casualties are still running more than double the level earlier this year. From Saigon, Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker has urged that Nixon resume bombing North Viet Nam as a boost to South Vietnamese morale, but the President has rejected that course for the present...
...Eagle's Roost. Even as new names trickled from the White House, the Senate confirmed one of Nixon's less admired appointments: Philadelphia Publisher Walter Annenberg as Ambassador to Britain. A close friend who has played host to the President on his visits to Palm Springs, Annenberg was coldly received by J. William Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who told a Washington Post reporter that he was "simply not up to the standards we expect for our premier diplomatic post." Indeed, Annenberg's lack of experience, together with his reputation for ruthlessness, has already...
...ambassador's redecorating chores, however, promises a crisis. Calling the huge (35-ft. wingspread) gilded eagle that bestrides the U.S. embassy in Grosvenor Square an insult to the British,-Annenberg said that he would find a new roost for the bird. That may not be so easy. The eagle's creator, Sculptor Theodore Roszak, has threatened legal action if his work is removed. "The eagle," said Roszak, "is an integral part of the embassy." Besides, he added, the cost of tearing him loose from the building's steel beams would be enormous. Meanwhile, a well-turned verse...
...Dear Mr. Ambassador...
Educational problems of a different sort were raised in a discussion of underdeveloped nations. Lall, former Ambassador of India to the United Nations, said that countries with poor educational facilities also have rapidly growing populations. He said that in India, rapid population growth made it "impossible to provide good and universal education," so that 60 million school-age children cannot be educated...