Word: diplomatic
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Shultz countered the diplomatic insurgency by announcing that Hinton's replacement in El Salvador would be Thomas R. Pickering, 51, a distinguished career diplomat who is currently U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria. Pickering thus becomes the third member of a new diplomatic troika. The other two previously appointed members are L. Anthony Motley, 45, who was Ambassador to Brazil, and Richard Stone, a former Democratic Senator from Florida, who was sworn in last week as the State Department's special envoy to Central America. Said Shultz: "[Pickering] is the best possible man for the job. We picked...
...State Department bureaucrats decided to draw the line at the White House staffs desire to replace Ambassador to El Salvador Deane Hinton with a man of their own choosing. A colorful, outspoken and energetic diplomat, Hinton was due to leave El Salvador this summer in any case; by all accounts, he has been highly successful at what Shultz last week described as one of the "most important, difficult, demanding and sophisticated" U.S. diplomatic jobs any where...
Literature specialists emphasized that Fuentes is uniquely able to speak for all of Latin-America because, since he grew up in the family of a Mexican diplomat, he has lived in the United States, Chile, Argentina and Brazil, as well as his native Mexico...
...union leader gave him definite word that he would not be coming to Harvard's Commencement. With that news, says Aloian, he and his colleagues began searching for a replacement speaker, and before long they had secured an acceptance--directly, unambiguously, and in English--from the Mexican author and diplomat Carlos Fuentes...
...afternoon portion of the graduation exercises. President Bok and Commencement speaker Carlos Fuentes (see story and excerpts from the speech, page 14) a Mexican author and diplomat, will address the just graduated seniors, returning to the Yard for the Harvard Alumni Association Annual Meeting...