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...less some kind of agreement that we define more accurately the obligations of each country. Is it obligatory on the part of the U.S. to give a compensation package that totals $900 million? Under Section V of the revised military facilities agreement, there is a committee headed by our Ambassador to the U.S. and your Ambassador to the Philippines who can look into all these matters and start negotiations on a quiet < diplomatic level...
...hectoring. When she first met Helena Rubinstein, she told her that Lauder Creme Pack would do much to smooth out Madame's neck. (Decades later she astounded Jeane Kirkpatrick with the suggestion that her clothes aged her. "You mean you don't like what I'm wearing?" gasped the Ambassador...
After his meeting with Hussein, Arafat paid a courtesy call on the Soviet ambassador in Amman. As it happened, less than 24 hours later Moscow announced that it had received good news about its own brush with the vagaries of Middle Eastern terror. Three Soviet diplomats kidnaped in Beirut on Sept. 30 had been released in that city, 28 days after the body of a fourth Soviet kidnap victim, Consular Secretary Arkadi Katkov, was found with a bullet through the head. The P.L.O. had nothing to do with the Soviet kidnapings, for which the hitherto unknown Islamic Liberation Organization claimed...
Ulam recently returned from a visit to the Soviet Union at the request of the American ambassador, where he gave lectures and met with academians and historians, his wife said...
...early days, the U.N. was dominated by the Western powers. But as fading empires shed their colonies in the '60s, the developing world gained a greater voice that the U.S. was often slow to acknowledge. Says former Ambassador (now U.S. Senator) Daniel Patrick Moynihan: "Our biggest failing at the U.N.. . .is that we have never been able to think in terms of political coalitions." In the U.N.'s General Assembly, dubbed a "town meeting of the world" by former Secretary-General Trygve Lie, each nation--from the Seychelles (pop. 65,000) to China (pop. more than 1 billion...