Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Zahedi, 48, escort of beautiful women-last year's favorite was Elizabeth Taylor-lavish dispenser of caviar, which he delivers to friends by liveried chauffeur, former husband of the daughter of the Shah of Iran and probably Washington's best-known diplomat and partygiver. Hidden by his playboy image is his tremendous competence as an ambassador. He is also the chairman of the board of governors of the Islamic Center...
...shots indicate that the Carter Administration has pressed a vulnerable nerve. Says one analyst: "The Soviets are extremely irritated. They're puzzled, worried and scratching around for ways to fight back." The bizarre charges of espionage in Izvestia could, in fact, trigger a fresh round of recriminations. Accused Diplomat Presel is now on medical leave in West Germany, and some U.S. officials assume that he will not be allowed back in. If so, the U.S. will surely reply by sending a Soviet diplomat of similar rank packing home to Moscow...
...tragedy could have been much worse. Although one Western diplomat in Bucharest said that "the center of the town looked as though an air raid had hit it," TIME's Richard Gross cabled that relatively few buildings were actually flattened. "Most of those that were damaged had their roofs or top floors shaken loose. The rubble bombarded residents, who fled to the streets in panic. Motorists, not knowing where to flee, drove around in circles for hours in panic, creating horrendous traffic jams in a city where most people are too poor to afford cars. Yet U.S. embassy officials...
...morning in Washington, Paul Chepkwurui, the Ugandan chargé d'affaires, assured the State Department that Amin "merely wants to meet the people to reassure them that nothing will happen to them." Later, reporters asked Chepkwurui why Idi Amin was detaining the Americans. "Well, you know," said the diplomat blithely, "there are some bad people in Uganda, and maybe if some of these missionaries tried to leave on their own, they might be harassed or something...
...those interviews, tucked in among her recollections of the American presence in Vietnam, when Emerson describes a meeting with a North Vietnamese diplomat in Paris, or a Vietnamese soldier, that form the most moving parts of the book. These people, and others like Don Luce, the American reporter who revealed the existence of Saigon's tiger cages, or an American deserter on his way to Sweden, struggled to bring an end to the war. They are the heroes in a book dominated by sadder characters, American veterans and their families whose lives have been destroyed by death or mutilation...