Word: ambassador
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...knows what you have done right. But there has not been enough done right." He thereupon announced Jordan's elevation to chief of staff and shortly afterward left the room. Forty-five minutes later, Carter and Jordan strode into the Cabinet Room, where the twelve members and U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young were waiting. They knew that something big was up; they had already been told not to bring any aides. Said the summonses: "Principals only...
...servant mother, she finished first in her class at George Washington University Law School. She taught at Howard University Law School, joined a top Washington law firm, served on the boards of IBM, Scott Paper and Chase Manhattan, worked in Lyndon Johnson's presidential campaign and became U.S. Ambassador to Luxembourg. But when a liberal Senator once implied that she was a member of the privileged class, she indignantly replied: "While there may be others who forget what it meant to be excluded from the dining room of this very building, I shall never forget...
Last week the Israelis were outraged when Yasser Arafat, head of the Palestine Liberation Organization, was received in Vienna by Chancellor Bruno Kreisky with a welcome almost befitting a head of state. Israel recalled its ambassador from Vienna, and Begin left no doubt that he felt Kreisky was a Jewish traitor. The Austrian Chancellor said that he and former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt, who also joined the talks, had "gained the impression" that the P.L.O. "no longer insisted on the destruction of Israel." Arafat, however, gave no sign that the P.L.O. was backing down on the Middle East peace...
...campaign to ostracize Egypt within the Arab world also stepped up. Last Friday four terrorists, led by what one bystander called a "tall, blond and tough-looking Palestinian," stormed their way into the Egyptian embassy in Ankara, firing automatic weapons. They seized 20 hostages, including Ambassador Ahmed Kamal Olama and his son. The terrorists demanded that Turkey sever its relations with Egypt and Israel, release two Palestinian prisoners in Egypt and provide a flight to a friendly Arab country. The gunmen, reported to belong to the Revolutionary Eagles of Palestine, part of a Syrian-backed faction of the P.L.O., threatened...
...time, Olympic was managing director of a British consulting firm hired by the Ivory Coast government to screen competitors for the contract. Another $310,000 went to a company half owned by Timothee Ahoua, then and now the Ivory Coast ambassador...