Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...push hard next year not only for a trade bill but also for a consular treaty with the Soviet Union. The Government will also face renewed heckling from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee over Viet Nam. In this kind of encounter, Katzenbach has already won his spurs as a diplomat...
Intrigues & Failures. Martin proved an honorable and patient diplomat in Santo Domingo. He did his utmost to shore up the republic's first post-Trujillo constitutional President, Juan Bosch. In the end, it was Bosch who blew it. Martin pictures him as a suspicious and erratic tropical, whose Machiavellian intrigues and "very real failures to meet the people's needs" invited the military coup that set the stage for the 1965 crisis...
...Viet Cong. Subtract them from the picture and Saigon could handle the situation by itself." If not, highly mobile U.S. troops could make a swift return. Actually, the point was inserted more for bargaining than anything else. "This isn't much of a timetable," an Australian diplomat conceded, "and Gromyko will see the weak spots. But at least it gives him something to take around to other Communist countries...
...letters. Last week, with a remarkable display of willingness to let its critics speak, the New York Times printed a column-long letter containing one of the sharpest attacks to date of its coverage of the war in Viet Nam. The writer: Frederick E. Nolting Jr., 55, a U.S. diplomat for 17 years, former U.S. Ambassador to South Viet Nam, and now a Paris-based vice president of the Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. Excerpts from his letter to the Times...
Katzenbach has had only peripheral foreign policy experience, most notably in advising President Kennedy during the Cuban missile crisis in 1962. Nonetheless, he is brilliant, energetic and, as he proved in his negotiations with Congress over civil rights legislation, a sound diplomat. Named Acting Attorney General by Johnson after close friend and mentor Bobby Kennedy resigned to run for the Senate, it was five uncomfortable months before he was formally given the top job, but Katzenbach passed L.BJ.'s private loyalty test with honors by assuring the boss that he would serve in any capacity the President requested...