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...former ambassador to Japan and noted Far Fast expert Reischauer has long advocated more study of Japanese and other foreign cultures to improve diplomatic understanding...
Since Andrei Gromyko first appeared on the world scene as Soviet Ambassador to the U.S. during World War II, three generations of TIME correspondents have dogged the footsteps of this taciturn, publicity-shy diplomat. In Washington, at the United Nations and during almost every East-West crisis, reporters have waited, usually in vain, for the impenetrable Gromyko mask to slip...
...compliments are almost universal. Former Secretary of State Cyrus Vance has called Gromyko "a thoroughly professional practitioner of the diplomatic trade, a man of great skill and high intelligence." "I must say I am filled with admiration," says a Western ambassador who recently was face to face with Gromyko. "Here is a man of nearly 75 who is taking very good care of himself. And when he speaks, his mind is quick and he is a master of detail...
...There is no hit list," Rowny kept asserting. But in March it came to light that Rowny had indeed given a private memorandum to Kenneth Adelman, the young conservative deputy to U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick, whom National Security Adviser Clark had selected to replace Rostow as director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. The document criticized various individuals, including Rowny's principal deputy, James Goodby, who was declared suspect on grounds of being too eager for an agreement. (Goodby subsequently left the START delegation and now heads the American negotiating team at the Conference on Disarmament in Europe...
...stipulation that she must always live within six miles of her son's father. Her alimony, Simenon confides to his children and the world, "was high, about as much in dollars as a top executive made at that time [1950], a bit under the salary of a U.S. ambassador." D. gets her comeuppance in these pages, where her husband describes the mother of three of his children as a manic-depressive alcoholic given to stripping in public and calling herself a whore. As for "good old Boule," the time comes when Simenon must get rid of her too, handing...