Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny confided this assessment of his recent mission to the Arab countries to a visiting French diplomat in Moscow. Despite the Russian hand on the key, there were daily skirmishes last week between Egyptian and Israeli forces stationed along the Suez Canal. Egyptian artillery shelled Israeli positions on the east bank. The Israelis replied with withering rocket and cannon fire, finally sent in jets to strafe Egyptian artillery positions. They also sank two Soviet-made torpedo boats off the Gaza coast. As the week ended, the two sides were lobbing shells and bombs at each other across...
...been some time since Johnson has been able to whip out a poll, thrust it under the nose of some startled diplomat or newsman and brandish it as evidence of his popularity. Down at the ranch, he was able to savor two samplings, one taken by Gallup before the President's Glassboro summit meetings, another by Louis Harris afterward, which showed a sharp increase in his ratings. Gallup gave him a 1% edge over Michigan's Republican Governor George Romney-though he trailed Romney by 9% less than four months ago. Harris showed him leading both Romney...
...dour and learned churchly diplomat, Vagnozzi suffered by comparison with his much admired predecessor, Amleto Cardinal Cicognani, now the Vatican's Secretary of State. Privately, many American bishops complained that Vagnozzi took too active an interest in the internal affairs of the U.S. church. In 1963, for example, he persuaded several prelates to cancel speaking engagements of the radical-minded Swiss Theologian Hans Küng. Both before and after the Second Vatican Council, Vagnozzi delivered repeated speeches warning U.S. Catholics against imprudent hankerings for too much change. The apostolic delegate is also known to have expressed strong opinions...
...title of apostolic delegate is one of the most anomalous in the church's bureaucracy. In nations with which it maintains diplomatic ties, the Vatican is represented by 35 nuncios (ambassadors), 16 pro-nuncios (ambassadors of slightly lower rank) and three internuncios (ministers plenipotentiary). The office of apostolic delegate was devised to provide the Vatican with representation in countries, such as the U.S., with which it does not have diplomatic relations. Technically, the apostolic delegate is merely a fraternal envoy to the Catholics of a nation; actually, he is an unofficial diplomat-and, when necessary, a papal hatchet...
...strong, marveled one 18th century critic, that "it seems as though nature had painted itself." One of the three that survive, showing La Tour at his prime at 50 (see color), was auctioned off at Sotheby's in London last week on behalf of a Bolivian diplomat. An anonymous buyer paid...