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...rather thought he was in investments," says Margaret Wimsatt, who often invited Doole to share Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner with her family. "He was a bit mysterious. I remember at a party at the Chinese embassy, he spent an awful lot of time talking to the Taiwanese ambassador. I asked him why, and he just said, 'We had a lot to talk about.' He would sort of peer at you through those thick black-rimmed glasses." Once, she recalled, she mentioned the name Richard Helms, former director of the CIA. "Do you know him from the Chevy Chase Club?" inquired...
...procedure strained Italy's judicial system and set off some internal political dissension. Foreign Minister Giulio Andreotti remained openly skeptical about the Bulgarian connection and quietly restored full diplomatic relations with Sofia. Even the Vatican has re-established links: two years ago, John Paul II received Bulgaria's new Ambassador to Rome...
From the burning of the U.S. embassy in Tripoli in 1979 to his outspoken support for the murderous attacks at the Rome and Vienna airports last December, Muammar Gaddafi has left a trail of blood and destruction during the past decade. Acting Ambassador-at-Large Robert Oakley told Congress in February that while Syria and Iran "remain very much involved" in fomenting international terrorism, "over the past six months Libya has become by far the most active, especially against American and European travelers. If it cannot be stopped, others can be expected to follow...
...Lewis-Davis report's recommendations, or how the Midwest's beleaguered smokestack industries could be induced to pay their share. Still, Mulroney could claim symbolic achievement in getting Reagan to come down out of the clouds--and trees--on the problem. Before Reagan's turnabout, as Canada's Ambassador to the U.S. Allan Gotlieb put it, "acid rain was dead in the water, just like the fish...
Unfortunately, news of Mulroney's success was all but overshadowed back home by some undiplomatic behavior at a diplomatic do. As a party honoring Vice President George Bush was getting under way at the Canadian embassy, Sondra Gotlieb, the Ambassador's wife, slapped her social secretary, Connie Connor. A dozen guests and members of the Canadian press corps looked on aghast. Washington was stunned by the uncharacteristic gaffe; the Gotliebs are considered one of the most popular and able diplomatic couples in the U.S. capital. The slap was apparently the result of tension over an important guest...