Word: diplomatic
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Death Revealed. St.-John Perse, 88, Nobel-prize winning poet who was also a leading diplomat in France for more than 20 years under the name Alexis Leger; in Giens, France. Born on Saint-Léger les Feuilles, an island in the Caribbean owned by his aristocratic family, Leger published his first volume of poetry in 1910, four years before joining the French foreign service. Dark-eyed, mustachioed Leger served as secretary of the French embassy in Peking and later as adviser to Foreign Minister Aristide Briand before becoming the highest permanent official at the Quai d'Orsay...
...mute recriminatory rhetoric. Although most Third World capitals had yet to study the lengthy proposals in detail, initial reaction of their U.N. delegates was receptive and even warily favorable. "A very positive statement," said the ambassador of one radical African state. "A tour de force," commented an Asian diplomat. The tone of the session mellowed enough for Yugoslav Foreign Minister Milos Minic to declare that "points of contact" were emerging between rich and poor. India's Foreign Minister Y.B. Chavan talked soothingly of confronting problems rather than confronting each other. A similar mood of cooperation was evident in Washington...
Architects of the fiasco were General Raul Gonzalez Alvear, the army chief of staff, and his brother-in-law General Alejandro Soils Rosera, head of the national war college. Their muzzy plot−"it must have been brewed before cocktails and executed after," as one foreign diplomat put it−was to surround the national palace in Quito and force the resignation of roly-poly President Rodriguez (known informally to his countrymen as el Bombita, or the little balloon), who has been Ecuador's benign, reformist dictator since leading a successful military coup in 1972. Setting up headquarters...
...were like the 82 countries that maintain diplomatic relations with the Vatican, Jadot would be a nuncio, a papal ambassador accredited to the capital. In the absence of such ties, Jadot's mission as Apostolic Delegate is directly to the U.S. church. His duties, nonetheless, embrace the diplomat's task of reporting home on every pertinent detail about his host country. In his two years in the U.S., Archbishop Jadot has plunged into American life as no other Apostolic Delegate has done since the post was established...
...Palestine Liberation Organization, which was also given membership during the Lima conference, pressed for a resolution that Israel be expelled from the U.N. The measure was supported by most of the Arabs. "The condition for Arab aid is support for their fight against Israel," explained a Latin American diplomat. But Egypt, concerned about jeopardizing Kissinger's efforts to reach a new interim peace agreement, opposed the Syrian proposal. So did several Black African countries and others like Singapore, Argentina and Indonesia. In the end, the conference adopted a mild, inconclusive resolution urging Israel to evacuate occupied Arab territory...