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...member of General Bedell Smith's staff in North Africa, Colonel Briggs helped arrange the Casablanca conference. She was lent to the State Department for a London assignment after the war, went on to Moscow as part of Ambassador Bedell Smith's staff, and in 1948 was appointed vice consul in Belgrade. After sending her to school for four years to become a Russian specialist, the Army put her in the Pentagon as chief of its Eastern European branch of intelligence; in 1961 she was sent to France as chief of the Armed Forces Soviet intelligence section...
...Casablanca, Morocco...
...shift grew out of a split in Syria's ruling Pan-Arab Baath Party between General Salah Jadid, leader of a powerful clique of pro-Peking officers, and Strongman General Amin Hafez, top dog in Syria since 1963. At the Casablanca conference of Arab leaders last September, Hafez pledged Syria to an agreement not to meddle in other states' internal affairs. Objecting, the Jadid group blamed a "right-wing reactionism" for the moderating tendencies in other Arab nations, argued for Syrian leadership to restore the "progressive Arab socialist outlook...
Died. Lord Ismay, 78, Britain's wartime chief of staff and confidante of Winston Churchill, a strapping, pug-jawed soldier who won the respect of Allied brass at conferences from Casablanca to Yalta as Churchill's tough but tactful "man with the oilcan" by putting machinery in motion to implement the statesman's broad decisions and showing a sure diplomatic hand which he later used in 1952-57 as NATO's first secretary-general; of congestive heart failure; in Broadway, England...
...that there is any question about what Kennedy did during his Presidency; the issue seems to be the way he did it. Sorensen's Kennedy is a man of pragmatic instinct, distrustful of liberal intellectuals, his chief preoccupation domestic politics and the domestic economy. He liked football; he liked Casablanca and Spartacus-- "nothing too arty or actionless." Schlesinger's Kennedy is instinctively broadminded; he actually opposed the Bay of Pigs, Schlesinger thinks. Where Sorensen never mentions Adlai Stevenson's name without irritation, Schlesinger sees in Kennedy a bit of an old Stevensonian. Though their personal relations were marred...