Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TIME is pleased to have Diplomat Gordon set the record straight...
...dangerous step in the American policy of escalation" and pledging continued aid to North Viet Nam. While obviously suffering under the new American blows (see THE WORLD), Hanoi in its public statements displayed no hint of any less determination than Washington. Ho Chi Minh recently told a visiting Canadian diplomat that the war would not be a protracted one, contending: "We won't have to wait too long." His reasoning: the U.S. elections in November will produce so much opposition to Lyndon Johnson's Viet Nam policies that the President will have to switch course...
...eight-month spell on Yankee Station off North Viet Nam in June, a squadron commander noted that the ship had launched more strike missions than any other carrier in a comparable period. Yet, he added ruefully, "we just haven't done the job we could have." Said a diplomat in Saigon: "How would you feel if you" were a pilot in the best air force in the world and had to write home to your wife and tell her that you got two trucks last week?" The frustration ended with the Hanoi-Haiphong strikes. General Meyers said that...
...years in the making, the Yugoslav protocol was merely the latest in a long line of negotiating successes that have earned Casaroli the Roman nickname of "the divine diplomat." In recent years, hardworking, hard-traveling Diplomat Casaroli has obtained the release from confinement of Czechoslovakia's Josef Cardinal Beran, arranged an agreement with the Hungarian government by which Pope Paul VI was able to fill a number of vacant dioceses, and negotiated a treaty with Tunisia regulating the rights of the Catholic minority in that Moslem country...
Looking much like a back-country parish priest, Casaroli has several qualities that make him an almost ideal Vatican diplomat: he speaks half a dozen languages, has both a vast fund of patience and a passion for anonymity. Casaroli approaches negotiations by picking and probing for small areas of agreement, hoping to expand them later. If a Red government insists that its constitution prohibits granting preferential treatment to any one religious group, Casaroli suggests that Catholics simply be allowed the spiritual rights available to anyone. If an issue seems certain to lead to dissension, Casaroli will suggest that...