Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Charles W. Yost, 58, to serve as Goldberg's chief deputy. A career diplomat for more than two decades, Yost has served ably as No. 3 man in the U.N. Mission, as No. 2 will replace Francis T. P. Plimpton, who is returning to his Manhattan law practice...
...officials, the refugees are little more than a massive nuisance that is siphoning off energy and funds from the war effort. To others, however, they could play a vital role in the outcome of the war. "This war is about people more than about real estate," says one American diplomat. "The side that has the loyalty of the people ought to win it. This is a good opportunity to add a few thousand friends to our side." The U.S. has already allocated $1,000,000 to the refugee camps in stopgap relief, is now considering a major aid program. Most...
...four cities, the upper classes scurry for status. Top status symbol: a foreign automobile. In one fantastic series of deals, a year-old Chevrolet Impala imported by a diplomat for $1,680 was ultimately bought by a Bombay movie star for $16,800. Import restrictions have made any foreign item desirable, including electric mixers, irons, refrigerators, hair dryers and record players. West Indian Author V. S. Naipaul, visiting India for the first time, records in his book Area of Darkness the xenophile plaint of a Delhi housewife: "I am just craze for foreign, just craze for foreign...
...Belgians are the Congolese of Europe," sniffed an African diplomat as tension approached flash point four years ago. In 1962 and 1963, Walloon and Flemish rioters clashed in the streets of Brussels. Finally, the government devised a plan to end the dispute. French would be the official language of the south, Dutch of the north; Brussels, a French-speaking island in the north, would be bilingual. Extremists on both sides rejected the plan: many Flemings wanted to set up their own semi-autonomous state; the Walloons wanted to keep things as they were-with French the preferred language...
...European jongleur and minnesinger have their parallel in the Japanese hanashika, whose tongues have wagged incessantly for some 800 years. Diplomat-Scholar Post Wheeler, who was stationed at the U.S. embassy in Tokyo for six years, determined to safeguard the huge literary and oral tradition of the hanashika, spent 25 years talking with the storytellers and collecting, translating and annotating their tales. His ten-volume work has never been made available to the general public largely because he refused to allow the publication of any edition that did not meet his exacting standards. Wheeler died in 1956, and Editor Harold...