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...provinces and I met with some of the people there, they were very impressed with me. They felt very comfortable talking to me and very comfortable relating to me. And felt very at ease talking about things. And I'm saying to myself "Ya see, America needs a diplomat like me, someone the people can feel and understand that can get with Dien Bien Phu and with these old men out there...
...choose mowing the lawn, right? Now imagine she says instead, "Youre going to live with apartheid, and you're going to like it." This is the situation seventeen year old Gil Burgess faces in Jon Robin Baitz's A Fair Country. His father Harry Burgess is an American diplomat stuck permanently in a backwater of 1977 South Africa, and wife and son begin to get a little too comfortable with beating up and calling the police on their black servants...
Sadly, Harry is not cut out to be a diplomat. His realpolitik is about as low as it comes. When his government comes calling, he leaves bawling. The rest of the play charts the moral angst and posturing that goes on over the decision. The second act asks the whodunit question: what did Harry choose? I wonder, since they're living in the Netherlands and all. Unfortunately Harry never considers the option of switching careers and saving himself a lot of explaining...
...classical trumpeting skills. As a composer of the jazz oratorio Blood on the Fields, he became the first winner of a Pulitzer Prize for a non-classical composition. As an author, public speaker, public television personality and director of the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, he has become a musical diplomat, a 21st-century Leonard Bernstein, lecturing and performing on six continents...
...Among other things, the latest documents show that General Pinochet may have had a hand in the 1976 car bomb attack that killed Chilean diplomat Orlando Letelier and an American aide, Ronni Moffit, in Washington. U.S. intelligence was aware that the general, long considered one of Washington's key allies in the region, had contacted Paraguay's President Alfredo Stroessner in the summer of that year to request Paraguayan passports to enable Michael Townley and Armando Fernandez to travel under cover to the U.S. The men, both Chilean intelligence operatives, were later convicted of carrying out the attack...