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...Ambassador of Guatemala...
...Kremlin began the exchange Friday when on short notice Ambassador to the U.S. Anatoli Dobrynin called at the State Department. Ushered into Secretary George Shultz's temporary offices (his regular quarters are being renovated), he laid on the desk a proposal for a September superpower session in Vienna. Purpose: to "prevent the militarization of outer space" and begin negotiating a ban on weapons that could destroy satellites. Before Shultz could discuss the matter with President Reagan at a prearranged meeting at the White House, the Soviet news agency TASS began releasing the proposal to the world. Whether...
...other was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. One went to Harvard and Harvard Law, the other never finished college. One has served as Lieutenant Governor and Attorney General of Massachusetts, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, Secretary of Defense. Attorney General of the United States, Secretary of Commerce and Ambassador to Great Britain; the other has never held public office. One is the quintessential insider; the other the quintessential outsider...
...Sondra Gotlieb, 47, writes about her unusual home life twice a month in the Washington Post. The address: 1746 Massachusetts Avenue. She is the wife of Allan Gotlieb, Canadian Ambassador to the U.S., and her official residence, she quips, "is something between a private home and a public drinking place." The energetic and outspoken author (two novels plus travel and humor works) peoples her pieces with a lively cast of capital types. Melvin Thistle Jr. from State always arrives late; the elderly Baron Spitte switches place cards if he is positioned below the salt, and bitchy Partygoer Popsie Tribble typically...
...ambassador to Japan from 1961-1966, Reischauer was the first American ambassador to speak Japanese and he is widely hailed for improving relations, especially cultural with large segments of that country's society...