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...Envoy Ennui. Though the White House maintains that Nixon is anxious to pick ambassadors with particular care, there are more than a few signs that the Administration simply has not been able to find men of the right caliber to fill such important posts. Tokyo was a case in point. After being turned down by at least four men, including John D. Rockefeller III and former Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton, Nixon selected a little-known career officer, Armin Meyer, who is experienced in Mideast affairs but a newcomer to the Far East. Unlike his two predecessors, who were influential with...
There were wounded feelings in other capitals besides Tokyo. The Argentines were chagrined when John Davis Lodge was shunted to Buenos Aires, after the notably uninterested envoy's appointment to the Organization of American States was overruled by Secretary of State William Rogers. At OAS, Joseph J. Jova, another minor-league professional, last week was named to replace Sol Linowitz, a successful lawyer-businessman with close ties to L.B.J. Latins fear this means that Nixon will downplay...
...five-month-old dispute with Peru over seizure of U.S. oil properties is just now receiving close attention. The new Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, Charles Meyer, a former Sears, Roebuck vice president in charge of hemisphere operations, was selected only this month. A special presidential envoy, New York Lawyer John Irwin II, was not sent to Lima until last week. Harry Flemming, head of the White House recruiting operation, promises a complete new team...
...probably the first time that any Soviet envoy had so formally attacked the policies of the other Communist giant. Behind Tsarapkin's words was a warning: any further tightening of the profitable West German-Chinese trade links would be most unwelcome to the Russians. In Paris, Rome and Tokyo, Tsarapkin's colleagues were giving the French, Italian and Japanese Foreign Ministers roughly the same message. In Ottawa, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau also got the word. The intent was clear: China, no longer a brotherly socialist nation but instead a dangerous foe, should be expelled from the ranks...
...British envoy Charley Whitlock flew to the island March 11 and was expelled he said, at gunpoint. Whitlock charged that Anguilla was "completely dominated by a gangster-type element ... somehow like the Mafia...