Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...York, Carter reached Washington in time to see a Senate committee chew a few more morsels out of his energy program and add to his griefs over the Panama Canal treaties. Kansas Republican Robert Dole raised a modest storm by disclosing a confidential State Department cable quoting a Panamanian diplomat as saying that Panama could not "agree to the right of the U.S. to intervene" militarily after 1999. What's more, the diplomat vowed, U.S. warships could not "go to the head of the line" to transit the canal in case of an emergency. The cable, from...
...Arabs, of course, were dismayed by the agreement. Carter and Vance immediately began testing the working paper on Arab diplomats, including Egypt's Ismail Fahmy and Syrian Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam. The U.S. strategy was to discuss the working-paper provisions along with other American proposals that the Israelis had not agreed to, in hopes that Arab reaction might lead to further refinements of a formula for Geneva. Apparently the approach worked. As one leading Arab diplomat told TIME, "There have been more pluses than minuses for us in these sessions...
...Blue Max Room's projection booth, from which he heard most of Dayan's 20-minute pep rally before being spotted by an Israeli security man and shooed away. Cate reported that the Dayan behind closed doors was much more the hard-nosed warrior than the cautious diplomat. His message was clear and tough, and he had some barbs for both President Carter and Secretary of State Vance. "We are being told by Carter and Vance that if we want peace, we must accept the Arab terms-we must give up the Golan Heights, the Sinai...
Last week the Supreme Soviet, Moscow's rubber-stamp parliament, unanimously approved Brezhnev's choice. He is Vasili Kuznetsov, 76, a veteran diplomat whose career peaked in 1953 when he was named Deputy Foreign Minister. He simultaneously served for two years as Moscow's Ambassador to Peking. (In the early '30s Kuznetsov earned an M.S. at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, and worked in the open-hearth division of the Ford Motor Co. in Dearborn, Mich.) In praising the new Vice President, Politburo Member Mikhail Suslov, 74, referred to Kuznetsov's "rich experience...
...Leonard Sheriff, 62. He is president of Sheriff Securities, which is generally considered to be the biggest of all arbitrage traders. Sheriff has the air of a boulevardier, is a wine authority and one of the important U.S. philatelists. Trained as a lawyer (one of his former partners is Diplomat-Investment Banker George Ball), Sheriff did a stint with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and founded his arbitrage firm back in 1960. He is one of the few arbitragers whose clients give .him full discretionary authority...