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...Gutsy Duck. To replace Lodge, who saw U.S. troop strength in Viet Nam rise from 16,000 to 420,000 during his current 19-month tour, Johnson tapped Ambassador-at-Large Ellsworth Bunker, 72. A courtly, starched-collar Vermonter who in 1951 left the sugar industry for diplomatic duty, Bunker is a tall, spare man who is known as a deft negotiator. As Ambassador to Argentina, he dealt with Dictator Juan Peron during a period of rabid Argentine anti-Americanism, had the satisfaction of seeing him exiled. In other troubleshooting assignments, he served as a mediator between Indonesia...
When possible replacements for Lodge were being considered over State Department kaffeeklatsches in Washington, many a Foreign Service officer muttered ruefully: "If only Bunker weren't so old . . ." Actually, in everything but chronology he is one of the youngest men in the department. Last January Bunker married comely U.S. Ambassador to Nepal Carol Laise, 49, honeymooning in the tiger-infested Himalayan foothills outside Katmandu. During an ambassadorial stint in New Delhi (1957-61) that won him abiding affection among Indians...
...Bunker shot bison in the jungles of Mysore for relaxation. As for his ability to withstand Viet Nam's heat, Bunker, who seems to take his own temperate zone wherever he goes, regularly worked 20-hour days in steaming Santo Domingo without losing his starch...
...ceremony in the predominantly Negro Patrick Campbell School. A near riot broke out at the graduation when a Negro minister, the Rev. Virgil Wood, jumped up on the platform and shouted "Hitler" while waving his fist at Mrs. Hicks. The very next day, as Mrs. Hicks well knew, was Bunker Hill Day, a public holiday in the working class neighborhood of Charlestown. Mrs. Hicks received the loudest applause given to any politician in the Bunker Hill Dav Parade...
Desert Drilling. For all its possibilities, the BP Bunker Hunt enterprise is only an indication of the interest that major oil companies now have in Libya. A mere five years ago, Libya ranked virtually nowhere among the oil-producing nations of the world. Today it stands seventh, behind the U.S., U.S.S.R., Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Iran. Thirty-nine companies have drilling operations in the Libyan desert. The biggest producer is a consortium, Oasis Oil Co. of Libya, Inc., comprising Continental, Marathon and Amerada-Shell. Also on the scene are Esso, Mobil/ Gelsenberg (75% Mobil-owned) and Amoseas, a joint...