Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...want to get along, can get along, and most of the time they do get along. But the closeness of contact makes irritation inevitable. In the last three years Ottawa has sent half a dozen stiff notes to Washington protesting U.S. trade restrictions. The case of Canadian Diplomat Herbert Norman, who killed himself in Cairo after a U.S. Senate subcommittee revealed that he once had Communist connections, inspired bitter diplomatic notes and an outburst of anti-U.S. editorials. Proud that their currency is robustly solid, Canadians are furious when some U.S. shopkeeper or cab driver turns down a Canadian...
...rebels were ready to talk. According to Paris, the young French diplomat met three rebel leaders: Mohammed Yazid, the FLN's representative at the U.N., Abane Ramdane, who reportedly runs the FLN military operation, and Dr. Lamine-Debaghine, FLN political leader. They reportedly assured Goëau-Brissonnière that they did not want the Algerian conflict to be "internationalized" (as may happen when the Algerian problem comes before the U.N. General Assembly in September), knowing that for years to come Algeria must live in some kind of economic and political relationship to France. Goëau-Brissonni...
Unknown to each other, Observer Goëau-Brissonnière and Lawyer Chaker caught the same Air France plane. At Paris' Orly Airport the French diplomat was greeted with a message that his car was waiting for him. Chaker was stopped by a plainclothesman who flashed papers and said, "Follow me." Interrogated that night, Chaker was charged next morning with "threatening the foreign security of the state." Unaware that a representative of the Paris government had been secretly talking with the FLN, somebody in French intelligence had got wind of Chaker's mission to Ben Bella...
These were homely analogies, a tough line folksily delivered, to conform with the current theme of benevolence. Folksiness is Khrushchev's style. Back in Moscow there is a Khrushchev family: dumpy, grey Mrs. Khrushchev, almost never seen at public functions, who once wistfully complained to a U.S. diplomat's wife that she did not go to the theater "as much as she would like to." The Khrushchevs have a downtown apartment in Moscow, a house in Lenin Hills of the boxy type favored by Nikita, nicknamed a Khrushchobka by builders, a dacha in the Crimea. In Moscow also...
...affable, able administrator who in twelve years saw San Francisco State rise from a fading campus of 800 students to a prospering school of 9,200, new President Leonard is not only an effective money raiser, but also a born diplomat. "The American University of Beirut," said he at his inauguration, attended by Lebanon's President Camille Chamoun, "will not engage in politics nor in indoctrination, but will be free to teach youth to examine and evaluate all ideas . . . One thing we know-that when students are thus educated, they can build nations of their own design. They...