Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Spoken like a true diplomat, since Green undoubtedly knew the well-rehearsed sort of welcome he could expect. Act I took place at the Presidential Palace, where he presented his credentials, and consisted of champagne toasts with President Sukarno, together with a cordial lecture from the Bung on how U.S.-Indonesia relations were at their lowest ebb, all because U.S. policies in Viet Nam and Malaysia were "discouraging the Indonesian people in their wish to develop friendship with the United States." Act II, performed as Green drove back to the U.S. embassy, featured 2,000 Communist students and women chanting...
...only a 22-year-old army captain and palace aide, and the Dominican dictator was not very enthusiastic about the match, but he made his new son-in-law a minor envoy to Berlin and was soon convinced he had done the right thing. "He's an excellent diplomat," exclaimed papa, "because women like him and because he is a liar." Flor de Oro tired of Rubirosa in 1937, but Trujillo had found that he came in handy for many tasks, and Rubi stayed on the Dominican diplomatic payroll most of the time until El Benefactor's assassination...
...bomb explosion in the meeting hall. Egypt's ambassador was hauled from his auto by police and grilled for two hours. In other Arab capitals, Boumedienne started recruiting teachers to replace the 2,000 pro-Nasser Egyptian instructors in Algerian schools. "At least," said one impressed diplomat, "he's digging the cockroaches out of the woodwork...
More Than Doubled. Lured to Boston from the University of Rochester, where he was serving as associate dean, Dr. Berry proved a master medical diplomat in his dealings with the high-ranking physicians and surgeons who had won for Harvard almost unanimous acclaim as the world's No. 1 medical school. Equally important was Dr. Berry's talent for raising money. He more than doubled the medical school's endowment, but perhaps his most notable achievement was to persuade his two schools and seven Boston hospitals, many of which had been openly jealous of one another...
...trailed dozens of potential candidates for her hand. They traipsed along as usual when Beatrix flew off to ski at Gstaad in February. After all, a highly eligible bachelor, Rhenish Prince Richard zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, 30, was going to be there too. With him was a minor German diplomat, Claus von Amsberg, 38. "I do not understand," one puzzled newsman soon wired Amsterdam. "This Richard always skis alone, while Beatrix goes out and drinks in nightclubs with this fellow Claus Watsisname." Cabled his impatient editor: "Leave that fellow Claus. He is unimportant, he is a commoner...