Word: diplomatic
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Meanwhile, Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott, who succeeded Schecter, was already bulldogging Vice President Fritz Mondale on an Air Force Two tour of allied capitals. Talbott has served in Moscow and Eastern Europe, and also covered Henry Kissinger's visit to Peking in 1975. Mondale's on-the-record briefing took place in the same mid-fuselage lounge in which Kissinger used to dispense background information attributable only to "a senior U.S. official." Comparing the experienced diplomat's style with that of the new Vice President, Correspondent Talbott headed his file: "An Old Plane Under New Management...
...Historian Walter Laqueur, the terror elite works like a multinational corporation. "An operation," he writes, "would be planned in West Germany by Palestine Arabs, executed in Israel by terrorists recruited in Japan with weapons acquired in Italy but manufactured in Russia, supplied by an Algerian diplomat, and financed with Libyan money...
...Suez in 1956 and the prospect of devolution at home. For three decades he was a highly visible, thoroughly photogenic presence at international conferences, almost boyishly handsome even in middle age. Sartorially splendid in the Savile Row tradition, he looked and talked like an MGM image of a British diplomat. But his long career in politics and foreign policy involved problems of substance more than niceties of style. An important, long chapter of British history closed last week when Robert Anthony Eden, the first Lord Avon, died at age 79 of liver failure at his manor house in Alvediston, Wiltshire...
Many appraised the appointment positively. Says one former U.N. official: "Moynihan was the stick, Scranton was the carrot, and now Young can reap the benefits by innovating." According to a black diplomat, Young "could go far in changing the 'atmospherics,' and that is important since many U.N. issues are more symbolic than real...
...diplomat, Zbig−as he is known to his colleagues−spent much of his childhood outside Poland. During the war years, the family lived in Montreal, where the senior Brzezinski served as Polish consul general, and remained there after the Communists took over Poland in 1945. A graduate of Montreal's McGill University, Zbig earned his doctorate in government at Harvard, then taught political science there from 1953 to 1960. In the meantime, he became a U.S. citizen and married Emilie ("Muska") Benes, grandniece of Eduard Benes, the Czechoslovak President who was forced out of office after...