Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Evgeny Dmitrievich Kiselev, 54, Russia's top man in the U.N. Secretariat as Under Secretary for Political and Security Council Affairs, a smooth, ever-smiling career diplomat who was Ambassador to Cairo (1955-59), where he wooed Nasser during the Suez crisis with promises of Russian arms; after a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...corrosive indictment of the priest-ridden society of Portugal in the 1860s. The book was written in 1871, but Queiroz had his troubles getting it published. After it finally appeared in 1874, it was inevitably put on the Index. But by the time Queiroz, a patrician career diplomat as well as author, died in 1900, he was recognized not only as Portugal's first realistic novelist but his country's greatest writer of prose. Widely praised and known in Europe for half a century, Amaro is now available in the U.S. for the first time...
...victory belonged in large part to the man who relayed the U.S. pressure, short, wiry, U.S. Ambassador Samuel D. Berger. Called "Silent Sam" by the Korean press for his reluctance to make public pronouncements, Careerist Berger, 51, is a discreet, effective, behind-the-scenes diplomat. When General Park last month imposed a new ban on civilian political activities and announced a referendum designed to keep his military junta in power for another four years, Berger set about the task of convincing the general that he must abide by his pledge to President Kennedy 17 months ago to restore civilian rule...
...clouds are still hanging in the air and the weather looks bad," said a diplomat in Vientiane last week. His gloomy forecast was prompted not by the upcoming rainy season, but by the festering Communist-induced political crisis that is slowly turning-"neutral" Laos into a Red satellite...
...Agree." At the traditional Holy Thursday reception for diplomats accredited to the Vatican, the Pope said that he hoped his encyclical "will be heard and understood by all"-and it seemed that it was. There was a chorus of praise from leaders of other churches, and U.N. Secretary General U. Thant chimed in with "respectful homage" to the Pope for "his great wisdom, vision and courage." As a description of personal rights and the role of government, Pacem in Terns so closely conformed to Western practice and ideals that the U.S. State Department abandoned its custom of ignoring papal encyclicals...