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When Bhutto condemned the Soviet-sponsored Tashkent Agreement, which restored the old Indo-Pakistan borders, Ayub fired his Foreign Minister-although offering him an ambassadorship as a sop. Bhutto elected to stay at home and became increasingly critical of the President, a stand that gained him wide support among students and intellectuals. Last November, Ayub finally jailed him on charges of inciting to riot and endangering the national security-clearly an attempt to head the former Foreign Minister away from a presidential challenge later this year. By that time the opposition had hardened about demands for abandoning the "basic democrat...
Nixon is expected to announce soon appointments to several other major posts, including the prestigious Ambassadorship to England. Informed sources have indicated that Walter W. Annenberg, a millionaire publisher, will probably get that appointment, while Kenneth B. Keating, former U.S. Senator from New York and now a state judge, is in line for the Ambassadorship to Israel...
Nixon had also been trying to get a big-name Democrat, or at least a big name, for the ambassadorship to the United Nations. The post is not technically of Cabinet rank, but since the Eisenhower Administration it has had a quasi-Cabinet cachet. The fact that it also has very little real power makes it an ideal place in which to put an erstwhile opponent. Nixon offered it first to Hubert Humphrey, who soon said no. Next Nelson Rockefeller got a hint that the job might be his. Not interested. Nixon then approached Sargent Shriver, who was interested...
...American Independent Party wins enough Deep South states to force selection of the next President into the House of Representatives. With one vote for each state delegation, a handful of Wallaceites prove crucial. What price their support? If not repeal of the 13th and 14th Amendments, an ambassadorship to South Africa for George, at the very least...
...effect a settlement last fall and reportedly ordered Radványi to abandon mediation attempts. Devoutly believing in closer East-West relations, Radványi became increasingly-and, in the end, irrevocably-frustrated by his government's instructions, and opted for American citizenship rather than a Hungarian ambassadorship...