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...Presidents Truman and Johnson. He obviously knows a good story, and he admires his hero. Though a number of Eisenhower's fellow commanders in World War II regarded him mainly as an international "board chairman," Miller, himself a combat correspondent for Yank, sees Eisenhower as a consummate politician and diplomat whose mixture of heartiness, cunning and charm helped hold together a fragile military coalition. "He was most complex," Miller writes. "Dwight Eisenhower could and did outsmart, outthink, outmaneuver, outgovern, and outcommand almost anybody you'd care to name, including Winston Churchill, Charles de Gaulle, and yes, even Franklin Roosevelt...
...visit next month. But neither does he want to jeopardize his rapprochement with the Arab world, which ostracized Egypt after it made a separate peace with Israel. Mubarak's quiet diplomacy paid off at the Amman summit, when a resolution was passed that allowed Arab countries to restore diplomatic ties with Egypt; within a week nine countries did so. "Egyptians simply cannot stand aside and watch the violence against Palestinians without objecting," said a Western diplomat in Cairo. "I do not like to contemplate the effects of erosion in the Egyptian-Israeli relationship...
...enormous, dull green cocoon with a blunted half sphere . . . a belly full of fuel, its sleepy snoozing head, where the explosive is concealed." Like earlier photos provided by the Soviets, the Pravda snapshot showed the canister encasing the SS-20, not the missile itself. The article, said a Western diplomat, "is of more literary than military value." And the West is still waiting for that photo...
That assertion served to break the ice with several black leaders, including Boesak. But the diplomat has also established a wide network of contacts among ordinary blacks during unpublicized visits to squatter camps and churches throughout the country. "After a while we were struck by his obvious concern for South Africa's blacks," says Dr. Nthato Motlana, chairman of the Civic Association in the black township of Soweto. "And we realized that he had lived through the kind of trauma that we're going through...
Obukhov subjected Glitman to constant harangues. Once Glitman asked a simple question on an issue of fact and in response got a 65-minute filibuster on the perfidy of U.S. policy and the illegitimacy of the American nuclear presence in Europe. After another testy meeting, one American diplomat cracked, "I think these Russian boys miss their liquor, and they're taking...