Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Huong did, however, bring in new men for the main posts. Senator Tran Chanh Tranh, a diplomat and political independent who is not close to either Thieu or Ky, became Foreign Minister. Four-star General Tran Thien Khiem, an ally of President Thieu and presently Ambassador to Taiwan, was named Interior Minister. Dr. Phan Quang Dan, a vice-presidential candidate who ran against the Thieu-Ky military ticket in the September elections, got the ministry dealing with defectors. Huong kept for himself the Rural Development Ministry, responsible for pacification. "The life and death of this country depend on this government...
...surrounded the airport and personally directed every operation and news release from his corner office in the palace. "We must bomb the enemy systematically," he instructed his commander by phone. Later, Duvalier rang up Washington, where the Haitian ambassador, Arthur Bonhomme, was holding a press conference, and instructed the diplomat to inform the assembled reporters that Papa's troops were "mopping up right...
Professionally compelled to get the facts, reporters have long resorted to deception. As far back as 1886, a brash young journalist who called herself Nel lie Bly feigned insanity to expose the inhuman conditions in a mental hospital. And in 1919, Herbert Bayard Swope passed himself off as a diplomat, outfitted with cutaway coat and chauffeured limousine, to provide a firsthand account of peace-treaty negotiations at Versailles. Last week, as the result of a National Labor Relations Board decision, the concept of what journalists call "enterprising reporting" was subjected to Government review...
...North Vietnamese are waiting for, Harriman and his team seem determined to outsit them and outtalk them. Despite the first week's barren outcome, few anticipate that either side is about to break off the negotiations. "There is something adhesive about talks like this," said a U.S. diplomat. "Once they start, they tend to go on." The danger is that they could go on-and on-until patience erodes and pressures mount in support of a wider...
...proved to be the bar and grill of the Hotel Crillon, next door to the American embassy. Harriman dines there regularly, and most members of the U.S. delegation can be found at the bar sooner or later. One reason stories are scarce, and off-the-record chats with the diplomats are hard to come by is the problem of electronic surveillance. At the Majestic, quipped one U.S. diplomat, "there must be so many bugs they ride side-saddle." The Crillon is considered no more secure. "The only thing we talk about in the Crillon is what to eat for dinner...