Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Israelis can afford to delay, and the Arabs cannot bring themselves to do otherwise. Even the Arabs' hopes for the Palestinian fedayeen as a force that could break the impasse have faded, although, as one U.S. diplomat observes, "We will have the terrorist problem in the Middle East as long as the Palestinian problem is not solved." Of particular concern is the uncontrollable Black September group, which some fedayeen leaders in Beirut describe as "not an organization but a state of mind." They mean that various groups of fedayeen who become disgruntled may temporarily declare themselves members of Black...
...Whitlam could squeeze me in," Ogle reports, "only because a diplomat from one of the Southeast Asian countries had not shown up." The interview that followed was the first that Whitlam had given to any correspondent, foreign or Australian, since taking office. Ogle's report on Whitlam and the new course he has set for his nation is the basis of this week's World story, written in New York by Associate Editor Edwin Bolwell, who has a special affection for Australia. He was born and lived there for 25 years...
...only American diplomat to have held the three most prestigious posts in Europe: ambassador to France from 1949 to 1952, to West Germany from 1957 to 1959, and to Britain from 1961 to 1969 (the longest term there ever for a U.S. envoy). Two and a half years ago, Nixon called him out of retirement to represent the U.S. at the Paris peace talks, which he did for twelve months. Now, at age 75, he once again comes out of retirement, officially to head the U.S. liaison office in Peking, but unofficially to act as ambassador to China in everything...
Tall, gray-haired, the picture of a diplomat, Bruce combines a straightforward analytical mind with an urbane sense of humor and an elegant appreciation for wines and art. Son of a former U.S. Senator from Maryland, he went to Princeton and the law schools of the universities of Maryland and Virginia. At various times he was elected to both the Maryland and Virginia legislatures and was a banker and manufacturer of parachutes. During World War II he directed the European operations of the Office of Strategic Services, the U.S. foreign intelligence unit. After the war, Truman appointed Bruce, in quick...
...Affairs Secretary Mitchell Sharp flew to Indochina last week for a three-day tour of Saigon, Vientiane and Hanoi. His purpose: to size up the problems of Canada's 290-man mission to the ICCS. The U.S. is extremely anxious for Canada to remain, for, as one American diplomat put it, "there is no question that the Canadians have provided the brains and the muscle of the operation...