Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...letterhead. Pearson's Rockcliffe address was misspelled "Rockliffe," and the occasion of Pearson's nuclear policy speech was misstated. Beyond this, the letter simply did not read like Butterworth. While the Kennedy Administration was clearly unhappy with the Diefenbaker government, hardly anyone thought that skilled Career Diplomat Butterworth would have so clumsily intervened in the Canadian political situation. And he would hardly have used the awkward phrasing of the letter ("I was delighted with the timing, which I considered perfect, announcing the stand taken by your party"), or addressed his friend Mike Pearson with the formal "Dear...
...diplomatic port of call. Lisbon is hardly on the grand circuit. It provides such minor challenges as working for steady trade in wine, sardines and cork. There are also the knotty problems of negotiating the renewal of a treaty for continued use of U.S. military bases in the Azores*and of smoothing out relations ruffled by U.S. support of U.N. anticolonial resolutions involving the Portuguese colony of Angola. To make way for Anderson, the present ambassador, C. Burke Elbrick, 55, a career diplomat who has held the Lisbon post since 1958, will be reassigned...
...That evening another group of young Czechs began swinging at an African walking with his Czech wife, then picked a fight with two more Africans who had been arguing with some Cubans. This time police broke up the brawls, but not before a fourth incident occurred. An African diplomat had parked his car to investigate the trouble; the diplomat returned to discover that all four of the tires on his automobile were slashed...
...Corruption is the lubricant of the Iranian economy," a diplomat in Teheran once observed. Depending on the size of the pishkash (bribe), justice was bought and sold, tax rights were purchased, government jobs auctioned off, contracts given, and conscription was waived. Sporadic efforts by Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi to clean things up usually ended dismally in a disastrous series of acquittals, and cases dropped for lack of evidence...
Died. Omar Loutfi, 55, United Nations Under Secretary for Special Political Affairs since last year, a highly respected Egyptian diplomat who persuasively represented his country at the U.N. during the 1956 Suez Crisis and as Under Secretary had been especially concerned with disarmament; of a heart attack; at the U.N. Secretariat Building in Manhattan...