Word: ambassadors
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...last May for trying to buy secret information from a U.S. naval officer; in October they were sentenced to 50 years in prison for espionage. Even before the trial ended, negotiations for a swap began. President Carter directed National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski to conduct the talks with Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin. The discussions went on for months in the offices of both negotiators, occasionally in Brzezinski's house in McLean, Va., where his daughter and Dobrynin's granddaughter sometimes rode horses together...
...Cabinet-level Special Coordination Committee, which sets tactics for the arms talks, met to give Secretary of State Cyrus Vance instructions for what might have turned out to be his final SALT II bargaining round with Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin. But after conferring Wednesday, bringing to eight their meetings in April alone, the two senior diplomats were still unable to tie up the treaty's ever unraveling ends. As usual, each of last week's negotiating sessions yielded some progress, but not enough...
Egyptian and Israeli officials welcomed the appointment. State Department sources insisted that it was not a slap at Alfred L. Atherton Jr., the career diplomat who preceded him in this job and who will be named Ambassador to Cairo. As one former aide put it, Strauss can "take two guys that are in total disagreement with each other into a room and walk out later with neither of the two satisfied but both having stepped a lot closer together." One Texas-size question: Will the cajoling style that served Strauss so well in smoke-filled rooms at Democratic conventions have...
Bush said he planned to head for New Hampshire last night to conclude the first day of his campaign effort. Claiming he would bring "a new candor" to government, the former United Nations ambassador said, "If I don't know the answer to a question I'll tell them I don't know...
Zbigniew Brzezinski, national security advisor to President Carter, who reportedly helped negotiate the prisoner exchange with Soviet Ambassador Anatoly F. Dobrynin, served on the visiting committee to the Ukrainian Studies Institute until he left to join the administration...