Word: envoys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...special envoy, President Johnson sent John Bartlow Martin, 49, to plead for "broad-based" government between the rebels, led by Colonel Francisco Caamaño Deñó, and the five-man loyalist junta headed by Brigadier General Antonio Imbert Barreras. Martin was U.S. ambassador in Santo Domingo in 1963 during the administration of exiled President Juan Bosch, in whose name the original revolt was launched. He was a friend of Bosch, knew both Caamaño and Imbert. He carried only one condition from Johnson: that Communists among the rebels must be excluded from any new government. Martin shuttled...
Unceasingly, the rebel radio dinned against the "Yanqui invaders." Businessmen were warned not to open shop: "Each bullet in a rebel gun has the name of a gringo on it, and if not a gringo then an industrialist." At each turn of the negotiations with Special Envoy Martin, Caamaño had new complaints, new demands, new reasons for not negotiating with Imbert's junta. He imperiously demanded his own "corridor" slicing across the U.S. cordon along Avenida San Juan Bosco-to maintain communication with "our forces in the north." Such a passage would nullify the entire U.S. effort...
...Cairo, the mob paraded with banners reading "Palestinians recognize in Bourguiba their real defender" and "A firing squad for Nasser!", then broke through police lines to stone the Iraqi embassy and smash down the door at the Egyptian. Ambassadors took wing like homing pigeons. Egypt huffily ordered its envoy out of Tunisia, and in a single day Tunisian diplomats to Cairo, Damascus and Baghdad arrived back in Tunis...
...growls that emanated from Hanoi and Peking last week had all the gruff timbre of true paper tigers. Both Ho Chi Minh and Mao Tse-tung sneeringly declined to receive British Envoy Patrick Gordon Walker, who had planned a visit to discuss negotiations over Viet Nam. The U.N.'s Secretary-General U Thant got a more raucous rebuff: "U Thant is knocking at the wrong door," bellowed Peking to the suggestion of U.N. involvement. Ho dismissed Lyndon Johnson's offer of "unconditional discussions" over Viet Nam as "stinking of poison gas," and demanded complete withdrawal of U.S. forces...
...Indonesians seemed hurt by the whole thing, pointed out that Moses' wrathful action came just when Special Presidential Envoy Ellsworth Bunker was in Djakarta to see about tempering Sukarno's anti-American binge. The fact is that nobody really expects Bunker to budge the Bung with his diplomatic chitchat. Maybe there's something to be said for the Mosaic method...