Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Next Step. Five days later, as U.S. officials probed the back corridors of diplomacy for confirmation, a North Vietnamese diplomat in Paris confirmed that Hanoi's position had indeed changed. Summoning Paris-based Westinghouse Broadcasting Co. Correspondent Bernard Redmont to the North Vietnamese mission, the diplomat, according to the reporter, said that if the bombings stop, peace talks will begin; he made no mention of Hanoi's repeated demand that the bombing pause must be permanent. "The next step," he told Redmont, "is up to President Johnson...
...galaxy of functions, some defined by the Constitution, some granted by tradition, some arrogated by the man in office. A President is at once head of state and leader of his party, Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces and administrator of a vast bureaucracy, leading legislator and top diplomat, educator and economist, symbol and sage, ribbon cutter and fence mender. Because of his role in shaping legislation affecting the cities, in recent years he has also become "the Chief Executive of Metropolis," as Williams Political Scientist James Mac-Gregor Burns puts...
Wolf was a career diplomat who routinely joined the Nazi Party and, in 1940, was posted as consul to Florence. At the time, the city seemed a diplomatic backwater, ideal for a man whom one of his later beneficiaries described as "reserved, even lackadaisical." It was only when Italy began to fall apart militarily and the Germans came in to hold the country that the mild, art-loving consul began to show his true fiber...
...likely to be the future political role of the Viet Cong. They are certain to demand several Cabinet seats, and there are those who feel that the U.S. must be just as certain to refuse. "If you give the Viet Cong the Interior Ministry," says one senior U.S. diplomat, "that means you lose. If you give them anything less, it's meaningless." But the U.S. is willing to see the Viet Cong get some political representation. The State Department has indicated as much. The V.C. certainly might be recognized as a political party, and it is not entirely...
...provided them with a list of 30 names. Some of the men were then charged with such offenses as pimping, corruption of minors and breach of decency. The list included three counts, a marquis, the son of an ex-king, a hotel owner, a prominent businessman and a former diplomat to the United Nations. The ring's two madams were immediately convicted and sentenced, but the government hesitated in pressing the cases against...