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...warmly, for the two got along quite well last January during the President-elect's visit to the border city of Ciudad Juárez. But as soon as the two leaders sit down and begin talking policy, the warm feelings may cool. As one U.S. diplomat observes, "Their basic positions evolved separately and are in conflict. Frankly, I wish they would just agree to disagree...
...made the case for Western aid to developing Third World countries in such books as The Rich Nations and the Poor Nations (1962) and Progress for a Small Planet (1980); of cancer; in Lodsworth, England. A onetime assistant editor of the Economist and the wife of the Australian diplomat Commander Sir Robert Jackson, Ward became an influential adviser on international economics to U.N. Secretary-General U Thant and to Presidents John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. The technologically and economically advanced nations "are remaking the face of the earth," she once wrote, but she warned that "by indifference...
DIED. Charles W. Yost, 73, who participated in the San Francisco conference that founded the U.N. in 1945 and then, nearly a quarter of a century later, became the first career diplomat to serve as U.S. ambassador to the organization (1969-71); of cancer; in Washington. Nicknamed "the Gray Ghost" because of his mild, unassuming manner, he was a seasoned troubleshooter whose service over four decades in capitals from Vienna to Vientiane earned him the Foreign Service's highest honor, the title of Career Ambassador...
President Carter's appointment of Watson as ambassador to the Soviet Union in 1979 marked the first time in 27 years that a career diplomat was not sent to Moscow. Watson was best known for his spectacular tenure as president and chairman of the board of IBM, during which he pioneered the company's trend-setting manufacture and distribution of computers. When he stepped down as chairman of the corporation in 1974, following a heart attack, Watson had turned IBM into what Business Week called "perhaps the most efficient and responsive manufacturing and marketing operation in business history," and raised...
Watson had been in Moscow for three months when Soviet troops moved into Afghanistan. In response, in January 1980, Carter summoned Watson back to the United States, a move officially called "a return for consultations," but publicly described by White House officials as "a diplomatic act of retaliation." In similar situations in the past--Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968--the U.S. ambassador had remained in Moscow, Some, including the unidentified State Department officials, saw Watson's recall as indication that he had "no special background in foreign affairs" and "no particular access to Soviet leadership." "Is Watson...