Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nonetheless, tall (6 ft. 4 in.) Patriarch Athenagoras, a multilingual diplomat-priest, makes up in personal stature what he lacks in spiritual authority. "He is an outstanding churchman," says one Vatican official, "a modernizer in the same tradition as John XXIII...
...return, Georgiev said, he tipped off the CIA to Communist strategy at the U.N., supplied secret intelligence about the Sino-Soviet split. He was so good at his job, Georgiev reported modestly, that the CIA gave him a diploma for efficiency, and the courtroom audience tittered when the ex-diplomat said he once asked the CIA to nominate him to succeed Dag Hammarskjold as U.N. Secretary-General...
...Bella had just dispatched a high-level aid mission to Russia, Red China's archrival. Communist China's aid to Algeria consists of a $50 million loan, which may be spent on building the first highway across the Sahara to left-leaning Mali. Snickered a Soviet diplomat in Algiers: "I hope they build it during the summer...
...greatest potential market is Russia. Khrushchev has told U.S. Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman, Roving Diplomat Averell Harriman and just about every other visiting businessman and journalist in Moscow that he is eager to buy not fertilizer but entire fertilizer plants from the U.S. Whether or not to sell him plants is a high-policy decision now facing President Johnson and Congress. One sticker is the Export Control Act, which bars the shipment of anything that would significantly help the Communist bloc's economy. Farmer Khrushchev would be the first to hope that U.S. fertilizer plants would do just that...
...rudely rebuffed. Sending Acheson out to Cambodia on a peacemaking mission would be fine, declared the Prince, but only on three conditions: 1) that Washington apologize for the U.S. diplomat who described as "barbarous" Radio Cambodia's tasteless comments on John F. Kennedy's assassination, 2) a formal withdrawal by U.S. diplomats of a question asking whether the "Cambodian government had rejoiced over Kennedy's death," 3) and the closing down of a radio station that Sihanouk claimed was run by CIA in Laos or Thailand for the purpose of sending subversive broadcasts into Cambodia...