Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Khoya Quandary. For all the herculean effort, the Afro-Asian* "summit" was doomed in advance to be a colossal anticlimax. As one Arab diplomat observed: "You can't have a coup and a conference." Yet that was exactly what Colonel Houari Boumedienne hoped to achieve. Since every invitation to the conference had been personally issued by President Ahmed ben Bella, the man whom Boumedienne had deposed a week earlier, many heads of state doubted the propriety of attending it as guests of the new regime; others were frankly worried about their safety. Even before the coup, the nine former...
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY George Seferis, Litto., Greek poet and diplomat...
...Gaulle's ire, France, to step out of the snare, would have to abandon its whole campaign for swift completion of the Common Market farm plan-and the Eurocrats were certain the French would never agree to that. But a clever diplomat never says never. Last week, without a twitch of embarrassment, Couve de Murville blandly told his colleagues in Brussels that since the Rome Treaty provided until 1970 to complete an agricultural common market, France saw no reason why everyone should be in such a hurry to finish...
...stockpiled supplies sufficient to support them through 90 days of combat. At slightly more than 26 divisions today, NATO is the closest it has ever come to that goal. For the first time, the ministers openly admitted what most Europeans had privately felt for some time-that, as one diplomat put it, "the idea of a full-scale conventional war has gone out the window. A war would never last more than three days without nuclear weapons being used." NATO's force goals are to be reappraised accordingly...
...months?" inquires her diplomat husband (Richard Todd). Just back from a trip, Todd finds everything at sixes and sevens in his English country home. His wife-pointedly identified as the mother of his children, lest there be some mistake-has been participating in the local arts festival rather more enthusiastically than anyone planned. Her pet project is a famous Italian composer-pianist (Rossano Brazzi). The two look at one another, and the sound track booms concerti. On a chain around her neck Maureen wears the gold medal Brazzi won at the festival, a clue that her course in music appreciation...