Word: envoys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Very little, obviously. The U.S. has closed down its $50 million average annual aid program to Indonesia as well as its five USIS libraries, which had been repeatedly pillaged by Indonesian mobs. Though U.S. Ambassador Howard Jones and his staff are still in Djakarta, even the envoy's residence has been raided. The only other official U.S. presence is a handful of Peace Corpsmen, largely gym instructors. Sukarno has already taken over nominal management-first step toward probable confiscation-of American rubber interests, as well as the Stanvac and Caltex oil companies...
...that end, Special Envoy Kurt Birrenbach flew to Jerusalem and was astounded to discover that Israeli officials were not exactly jumping with joy. For one thing, anti-German feelings lie bone-deep in many Israelis; for another, everyone recognized that Erhard's decision was prompted less by a desire to do right by Israel than by a need to slap back at Gamal Abdel Nasser, who has been diplomatically flirting with East Germany...
...Africa are in a time of building, not of destroying," Kalisa added. "The gun has no place in Africa and must be removed." The Ugandan envoy said the African states did not presume to tell other countries what to do with their military forces, but only asked that they keep them out of African...
...envoy to Uganda refused to acknowledge this international misdemeanour with the inexcusable and lame reason that the bombers were Congolese, but not U.S. Such an excuse only shows U.S. ignorance of her own actions abroad or her determination to massacre Africans and South-East Asians indiscriminately in pursuit of her world domination. To refute the U.S. ambassador's excuses, it must be pointed out that the T-28's and B-47's that were used are U.S. made, financed, and controlled. They are flown by Cuban mercenaries in U.S. employment. No Congolese are capable of flying a fighter plane...
Meanwhile the south, where university classes were suspended for a week to calm rioting students, was hastily visited by a government envoy. Gist of his message: for the time being, the southerners can still correspond with the capital, if they wish, in the associate language...