Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Diplomat Among Warriors, Murphy...
NONFICTION 1. A Moveable Feast, Hemingway (1) 2. Harlow, Shulman (6) 3. The Invisible Government, Wise and Ross (2) 4. A Tribute to John F. Kennedy, Salinger and Vanocur (3) 5. Crisis in Black and White, Silberman (7) 6. Four Days, U.P.I, and American Heritage (4) 7. Diplomat Among Warriors, Murphy (5) 8. Mississippi: The Closed Society, Silver 9. The Kennedy Wit, Adler 10. A Day in the Life of President Kennedy, Bishop...
...hopeless," said a veteran U.S. diplomat in Cyprus recently. .'Three times we held back the Turks, but I don't know if we can keep Turkey from coming in any longer." The words were prophetic, for last week the long expected Turkish intervention had begun. It was not the full-scale naval landing that some had feared; this still could come, but for now Turkey was sending its jet fighters across the narrow straits to blast limited Greek Cypriot targets...
...eager young Chinese Communist diplomat would have jumped at the assignment, and crewcut, bespectacled Tung Chi-ping was no exception. The place was Bujumbura, the cool, colorful capital of tiny Burundi (pop. 2,750,000) in the heart of subversion-ripe Central Africa. The embassy itself was located in an entire wing of the Paguidas-Haidemenos Hotel ("hot and cold running water"), and the job was nominally "assistant cultural attache." The duties were far more interesting than mere lecturing on Sung poetry and Ming pottery. Every night, for instance, exciting home movies were shown to select audiences brought in from...
...Moveable Feast, Hemingway (2) 2. The Invisible Government, Wise and Ross (1) 3. A Tribute to John F. Kennedy, Salinger and Vanocur (4) 4. Four Days, U.P.I, and American Heritage (3) 5. Diplomat Among Warriors, Murphy (5) 6. Harlow, Schulman (6) 7. Crisis in Black and White, Silberman (8) 8 A Day in the Life of President Kennedy, Bishop (9) 9. Profiles in Courage, Kennedy (10) 10. My Years with General Motors, Sloan...