Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Given the mix of personal ambitions and animosities in Saigon, that plot was always less likely to unfold according to plan than to unravel. Last week, in a drama that "needed only Gilbert and Sullivan to set it to music," as one Western diplomat in Saigon cracked unhappily, the show nearly collapsed altogether...
There is little doubt that Mujib will be convicted of the undefined charges of "waging war against Pakistan and other offenses." When he was arrested last March 26, hours after the army crackdown, Yahya publicly branded him a traitor and hinted that he "might not live." Observed one Western diplomat last week: "You know how hot the Punjabi plains are this time of year. You might say Mujib has a snowball's chance of acquittal...
...reopening of the Suez Canal, thereby helping to ease Egypt's humiliation over the continued occupation of its territory by Israeli forces. The way for Sisco's trip was paved by an assurance given by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat to Don Bergus, the senior U.S. diplomat in Cairo, that Egypt was still interested in achieving an interim settlement-providing it led to an eventual Israeli pullback from all Arab territory-and was still amenable to having the U.S. serve as a mediator...
...hopes for the Paris talks will now rest on William J. Porter, the highly skilled career diplomat who is expected to succeed Bruce. Porter, who has been U.S. ambassador to South Korea since 1967, is relatively unknown outside diplomatic circles. But behind a bland, pedantic appearance, he is a shrewd negotiator who is widely respected in the State Department and admired for his perceptive, sometimes earthy analyses. Nixon evidently was especially impressed by Porter's handling of recent negotiations to withdraw 20,000 U.S. troops from South Korea...
...with his widowed mother at an early age. He attended Thibodeau Business College in Fall River, Mass. He clerked for a time in a Fall River haberdashery, where he met a customer who was then U.S. minister to Budapest. They fell into conversation, and after several more chats, the diplomat launched Porter's career by hiring him as his private secretary...