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Lodge became President Eisenhower's United Nations Ambassador, serving longer in that post (7 1/2 years) than anyone before or since. At the U.N., the dashing diplomat is best remembered for his caustic oratory against the Soviet Union. In 1960, during the debate over the downing of an American U-2 intelligence plane over the Soviet Union, Lodge displayed in the Security Council a wooden plaque bearing the seal of the U.S. The plaque, which had hung for 15 years in the U.S. embassy in Moscow, turned out to be bugged. Later that year Lodge became Richard Nixon's running...
...since. In a move described as a precautionary step in preparation for the latest elections, Zia last week ordered the arrest of hundreds of opposition politicians and others who might prove to be a disruptive influence to his vision of "Islamic democracy." Said a senior Western diplomat in Karachi: "This is an invisible election. The constraints have choked the life...
...Last week the Soviets took a small step toward spiking that criticism. At a ceremony in Vienna, the U.S.S.R. signed an agreement that for the first time allows the U.N.-sponsored International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to inspect carefully selected parts of Moscow's civilian nuclear industry. Said Soviet Diplomat Vladimir Petrovsky at the signing: "On the eve of U.S.-Soviet talks in Geneva, we feel it is necessary to create a favorable atmosphere...
...themes provided some answers. One girl wrote that she would "travel about the country on business. Flowers, Paris, beauty. I'd spend the summer in the Crimea. I'd wear clothes made in the West. I'd have children, a car and a diplomat husband. I'd visit Poland, East Germany . . . India. I wouldn't work ! and I'd eat like a queen." A journalist's son wanted to "travel throughout many different countries; for instance, it's nice to interview a (Salvadoran) freedom fighter in the shade of a palm tree." A second boy wrote, "I will...
Macartney's trip was the first British effort to form political relations with the Far Eastern nation. The diplomat was sent to China by King George III of England in 1792, according to the latest issue of a Harvard Library newsletter which reports Lum's find...