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Institute of Politics Director Jonathan Moore has been nominated as U.S. coordinator for refugee affairs and ambassador at large by President Reagan. And the Institute's Associate Director and spokesman Charles P. Trueheart, will move to Washington to continue his career in journalism as an editor or writer of editorials...
...shopper at Manhattan's Alexander's department store tried on a $99.95 raincoat, according to a store detective, then ripped off the price tags and headed for the exit. The would-be shoplifter? None other than Iran's United Nations Ambassador Said Rajaie-Khorassani. Diplomatic immunity ruled out prosecution, but instead of quietly dropping the matter, the store reported the incident, which took place on May 7, to New York City police last week. The indignant Iranian ambassador thereupon called a press conference at which he insisted that he had merely been searching for a three-way mirror...
Master Chief Boatswain's Mate John Davidson from Malden, Mass., didn't have to come out of retirement to be selected. He had first sailed on the Missouri as a seaman first class in 1946 when she carried the body of the wartime Turkish Ambassador to the U.S. back to Istanbul to be buried. Since then he's seen ports of call from Australia to Italy and been tattooed by the best in Norfolk, Va., Hong Kong, Yokohama and Pearl Harbor. With just over 40 years in service, Davidson isn't padding his pension. He can't improve...
...years the affable, English-speaking Soviet Ambassador to the U.S., Anatoli Dobrynin, had served as an invaluable back channel for quiet negotiations between the two superpowers. When Dobrynin was tapped in March for higher duties as a Central Committee Secretary in the Kremlin, diplomatic circles speculated that the Kremlin would pick as his successor another Americanologist, perhaps one of the highly regarded new generation of experts from the Foreign Ministry. So it came as a shock last week when Moscow announced that its new envoy to Washington was Yuri V. Dubinin, 55, a West European specialist who speaks little English...
Only two months ago, Dubinin was named Moscow's Ambassador to the United Nations. Though that job gave him his first assignment on American shores, Dubinin was no diplomatic novice. Before going to the U.N., he served as the Soviet Ambassador to Spain for seven years, where he skillfully carried out the Kremlin's decision to restore good relations with the Spanish monarchy and Spain's Socialist political leaders. Still, he is regarded by some Western diplomats as conservative and cautious, an unsophisticated apparatchik who has a reputation for stonewalling at every turn. Some observers regard him as a throwback...