Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Because the two antagonists were so far apart, American officials flying to Egypt with Kissinger insisted last week, the Israelis and Egyptians themselves had requested that the U.S. Secretary of State take a direct hand in discussions. Explained one American diplomat: "Neither side understands what the other is trying to do. Both might find it easier to have an outsider interpret for them." Arriving in Aswan, where Sadat was recuperating from bronchitis, Kissinger immediately arranged to shuttle by air between there and Jerusalem, where Premier Golda Meir's decisions were affected by, among other things, a case of shingles...
...example, he hired Ibos who had fought for Biafra and made them his personal pilots and bodyguards. He gave Ibos federal jobs and saw to it that they got their fair share of senior positions, including posts as army officers. "He won the peace," says a British diplomat in Lagos, "by not acting...
...world rife with the rhetoric of detente, this admonition might sound like the words of a cold warrior, but it was certainly not that. Rather it was the final judgment of a coolly professional career diplomat who, after 42 years of specializing in Soviet affairs, remained optimistic about improving U.S.-Russian relations in such limited areas as trade and cultural and scientific exchange but exceedingly wary of the Soviet system. In his memoirs, published less than a year before his death last week at age 69, Charles Bohlen counseled that "illusion has no place in any negotiations with the Soviet...
Trading Quips. In appearance, Chip Bohlen was almost a Hollywood typecasting of what an American diplomat of the mid-century ought to be -tall, broad-shouldered, his language and his clothes tailored with equally elegant understatement. But Bohlen, who was reared in Aiken, S.C., and Ipswich, Mass., as the son of a modestly wealthy family, was also an engagingly informal man who propped his feet on his desk, spilled pipe tobacco on carpets, and organized late-night poker parties...
Died. Charles Eustis ("Chip") Bohlen, 69, career diplomat and for more than 30 years a leading U.S. expert on Soviet affairs (see THE NATION...