Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Farouk seemed uninterested. In 1949 he spotted a lovely young girl in a Cairo jewelry store. His spies reported that her name was Narriman Sadek and that she was about to be married to Egyptian Diplomat Zaki Hashem. Farouk sent Hashem off to a post abroad and married Narriman himself. A year later, the new Queen presented Farouk with a son, Prince Fuad. But this marriage also ended in divorce, and Farouk resumed collecting women in much the same fashion that he collected coins, stamps, clocks, jewelry and pornography...
...same more or less applies in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Peru, and every diplomat - U.S. or otherwise - considers it part of the game to build up a nest egg by importing and reselling a car every two or three years. When he left his post last year, one ambassador put two cars on the market, one of them a Lincoln Continental; another departing embassy official unloaded a three-year-old Buick...
...nothing government. More essentially, it is Frei himself. Tall and gaunt, he is disarmingly unpretentious, a man who speaks but does not orate. What he says comes across with precision and a sure dedication- and that is apparently what Chileans want. "Few in Chile today," says one diplomat, "can argue with such a clear recognition of what the problems are, topped off with a good-humored informality that suggests nothing is impossible...
Vagnozzi said that he was simply passing along instructions, but his own diplomatic reports back to Rome might well have inspired the letter. A learned, witty papal diplomat, Vagnozzi previously served as the Vatican's ambassador to the Philippines; he is an ecclesiastical conservative who has kept a watchful eye on liberal tendencies in the U.S. church since he came to Washington in 1959. In 1961 he delivered a public warning against the dangerous methods being used by certain Catholic scriptural scholars. Two years ago, he persuaded a few U.S. bishops to cancel speaking engagements by Swiss Theologian Hans...
...after all, anything goes. At just this point the novel begins a long, slick schuss into sentimentality, for what goes this time is the sure novelistic cure for male cynicism-a pretty girl. Bright, earnest and conveniently voluptuous, she is upset because her father, a U.S. diplomat, is so absolutely sweet and wonderful but a hopeless drunk. She is further upset when Pope John dies; so, naturally, she allows her new friend to take her virginity. She is still further upset when he tries to inveigle her into gold smuggling. But with entire predictability, she at last saves him from...