Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...guest. Peter was easy: "The rock, the anchor, the beginning. . ."Gavin was harder; next, Fielding had to translate Scott's given name into Irish: "Kevin, the emerald spirit of wit . . ." For Photographer Ben Martin, he spoke in terms of Ben Franklin: "Ben, the mechanical genius, the diplomat...
...Viet Nam has had in the past six years. Even if the U.S. wanted to abandon Thieu-and there is no sign whatever that it does -it might not be able to do so for lack of a substitute. "If the Americans destroy Thieu," says one high-ranking foreign diplomat in Saigon, "the government of South Viet Nam will collapse utterly. This is the Communists' strategy." While Thieu cannot be expected to cave in on the coalition issue, it would obviously be impossible to achieve a settlement if he stuck to his present public positions. For the Viet Cong...
...that have been proposed. One solution, for example, might be to let each side retain the areas it now controls while a neutral commission supervises balloting. Another might be an international commission to run the government while both sides compete at the polls. Still another might be what one diplomat calls a "Tammany Hall" solution-some yet unknown equation satisfying neither side but acceptable to both...
...When the top U.S. diplomat in Bonn requests an appointment with Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger, it is presumably to discuss a subject of considerable import to both of their governments. Thus it raised eyebrows recently-and provoked some snickers-when American Chargé d'Affaires Russell Fessenden was kept waiting while the ambassador of a small Latin American country paid a formal courtesy call on West Germany's chief executive. There was nothing Kiesinger could do about it; by diplomatic protocol, an ambassador has automatic precedence over any lesser rank...
Meanwhile, Chargé Fessenden, 53, a career diplomat, soldiers on in his efficient, unobtrusive way in Bonn. Says Fessenden of the ambassadorial void: "In the day-to-day business of the embassy, it doesn't cause any trouble. As charge, I can see anyone I want to. But for the psychology of the host country, an ambassador is important. He is the chief representative, and sooner or later you have to have a man with the prestige and the personal representation of the President...