Word: envoys
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Even though the U.N. mediator, Finland's Sakari Tuomioja, suffered a stroke, negotiations in Geneva continued. Greek and Turkish representatives in Geneva pored over a plan, proposed by U.S. Special Envoy Dean Acheson, which apparently envisages a union of Cyprus with Greece (enosis), with special guarantees for the Turkish Cypriots and a permanent Turkish base on the island. Given suitable face-saving devices, Turkey and Greece might accept. The same old stumbling block is still Makarios, who was once a loud advocate of enosis but now seems to enjoy being head of a sovereign state...
Plucked from a conference table in Geneva, U.S. Under Secretary of State George Ball last week flew to Athens and Ankara as a special envoy of President Johnson. His job: to damp down the latest Cyprus crisis caused by the sudden massing of Turkish troops at the seaport of Iskenderun...
...However, Arab leaders rejected a formula, worked out by Special U.S. Envoy Eric Johnston in 1955, that would have given Israel 40% of the Jordan's annual flow of some 335 billion gallons. Jordan would have received 45%, with Syria and Lebanon sharing the other...
...recent financial difficulties of the U.N. may lead to "other kinds of peace-keeping," the ambassador explained. "It may mean that peacekeeping will have to be kept on a modest scale." Sir Patrick cited the fact-finding mission and the special envoy as two methods which should be employed more often than they...
...African envoy to the United Nations and the United States charged that many Africans retain "colonized minds" because they are afraid to reject ideological labels in favor of terms more immediately relevant to the African situation. He said that timid African leaders are trapped by the "moderate" or "radical nationalist" labels given them by the Western press...