Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MINH has switched to Salems, forsaking his usual Philip Morrises and Camels. This interesting piece of news was recently reported by a foreign diplomat in a cable from embattled Hanoi and was duly passed on by his government to the U.S. State Department, which is still pondering its significance. In France, Premier Georges Pompidou recently complained before un meeting of the Society for the Protection of the French Language that it was really a bit much to arrive at Orly Airport and be told by the hôtesse d'air that le Welcome Bureau d'Air France...
...some day, and it is in line with this certainty that the peace efforts will and must continue. Said Rusk in Tokyo, reiterating a favorite theme: "I would be in Geneva tomorrow if there was somebody from Hanoi and Peking to talk about peace." Trouble is, as one U.S. diplomat put it, "the other side keeps hanging up the phone." Nonetheless, while the bombs keep falling, the phone will keep ringing...
...with the Job. It is General Suharto's intention that things will never get that bad. Economic recovery is the principal goal of Suharto's administration. "He personally doesn't understand the complexities of the economic problems facing the country," says a foreign diplomat who knows him well, "but he inspires confidence and has clear objectives. He wants to get on with the job of nation building...
Open Up. If the five-member CAB upholds its own enforcement unit's complaints, airlines still need not stop giving VIP treatment to a diplomat whose national dignity needs flattering or to a rock 'n' roll singer who needs protection from the mob. All the petitions ask is that the airlines be required to open the same lounge facilities to everyone...
...George Wright, Arthur Friedman and Jeff Tambor for particular praise. Wright shows us a King Henry who at first seems curiously light but whose capacity for working his will is slowly and impressively revealed to us. Friedman makes of the Spanish ambassador the supple but less than subtle diplomat he is meant to be while Tambor gives us a Thomas Cromwell of vulpine cunning and cruelty...