Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only 45, Gary has a chestful of medals as a World War II flying hero, serves his country as an able diplomat, knows after seven novels that he can write, and has won for one of them (The Roots of Heaven) the Prix Goncourt. All this, he maintains in this freewheeling autobiography, might not have happened at all had there not been Mama...
Segregation in the United States and its effect on the image of America in Africa will be discussed by Ghanian diplomat and three Americans during the Eighth National Conference of the U. S. National Commission for UNESCO at Boston University this week...
Into the neon-lighted Cottage Inn restaurant-motel on teeming U.S. Highway 40 north of Baltimore last week walked Pedro Sanjuan, 31, assistant chief of protocol of the U.S. State Department, on a troubled mission. The day before, the inn had refused to seat and serve a Nigerian diplomat, and Nigeria had lodged a formal complaint with the U.S. Government. Sanjuan had come to ask the Cottage Inn to reconsider its segregation policy-and he was loudly rebuffed. "The hell with the United Nations and the hell with your colored diplomats!" shouted beefy, red-faced Proprietor Clarence Rosier. "I built...
Meanwhile, Monnet's personal life took an international turn. At a Paris dinner party in 1928, he met darkly handsome Silvia de Bondini, a painter and wife of an Italian diplomat. Silvia soon left her husband; after five years of trying to obtain an Italian divorce, she was whisked to Moscow by Monnet, for a quick Moscow divorce and wedding. The gay Gallic bachelor became a devoted family man (the Monnets have two grown daughters). At their home at Houjarray, some 20 miles west of Paris,, he often talks through his notions with Silvia while she paints...
...which will almost certainly be headed by Souvanna Phouma as Premier. Four of the Cabinet seats will go to Boun Oum's supporters, four to the Reds, and eight to Souvanna Phouma's neutrals, who in most cases are not distinguishable from the Communists. Said a European diplomat: ''How can you expect the Western powers to accept a government with four from our side and twelve from behind the Iron Curtain...