Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Guy Francis de Money Burgess, 52, Eton-produced British diplomat who, with his colleague Donald Maclean, was found to be a top Soviet spy after their sensational 1951 flight to Russia; of heart disease; in Moscow. A slovenly, hard-drinking homosexual, less effective at undercover work than the fastidious Maclean, Burgess turned left at Cambridge, passed official secrets while in the foreign service both from London and Washington. He split with Maclean in exile, avoided Russians and defiantly sported his old school tie, but it was left to Maclean to eulogize him, as a band blared the Internationale...
...Shanghai and Canton. Until Pakistan demonstrates its "good faith" to Washington by finding a way out of the air agreement, the U.S. will withhold a $4,300,000 loan to modernize Dacca airport. In his own way, Troubleshooter Ball will have to rephrase the warning of a Western diplomat on the scene who said: "What began as a bit of flirtation could end with Pakistan getting seduced...
...quietly going from bad to disastrous. Burma's business is virtually at a standstill, credit is nonexistent, foreign investment has vanished - all because Dictator Ne Win insists on instant, total socialism. Burma has 1,370 miles of mountainous border with Red China, and, says an Eastern European diplomat, "practicing socialism in such proximity to Communism is like walking a tightrope in a typhoon...
...exhibition of U.S. plastics in Sofia last month drew up to 20,000 people a day; throughout the capital, Sofians proudly wore the plastic buttons they received as souvenirs. Said one diplomat: "It was almost a demonstration." The regime fears such scarcely concealed anti-Communist feelings, recently cracked down (like Moscow) on its creative artists. Even circus clowns were warned to make their acts more ideological. At the same time, Communist Ruler Todor Zhivkov allowed U.S. Ambassador Eugenie Anderson to give a Fourth of July speech on television; Bulgarian diplomats now accept dinner invitations from embassy personnel. After years...
...caviar, though sometimes he may be hard put to think of any other advantages to the job. Top Soviet leaders are usually inaccessible, uncommunicative, or both. And even when there are Western sources available too-as for this week's cover story-they sometimes fall into a diplomatic silence. Averell Harriman amiably reminded Moscow newsmen last week that the last diplomat to report to the people before he reported to his President was Jimmy Byrnes, and "he was fired...