Word: envoys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Russian Option. Special Envoy Ball, finally and flatly rebuffed by Makarios, grimly left the island, stopping off in Turkey and Greece to urge calm and caution on both governments. Aware that Cyprus was going to the U.N., Britain and the U.S. activated their last-ditch plan. London, about an hour ahead of Cyprus, requested an "early meeting" of the Security Council to deal with the "dangerous situation" posed by the fratricidal fighting. The British move was strictly procedural, and its aim was to get before the forum of the world the Anglo-American conviction that first things should come first...
When President Johnson meets Mexico's President Adolfo Lopez Mateos in Palm Springs this week, he will have a chance to introduce the new U.S. ambassador who is about to move to Mexico City. He is Fulton Freeman, 48, currently U.S. envoy to Colombia and rated one of the most energetic and effective U.S. diplomats on the job in Latin America...
Only for a brief, early moment was there a flare of hope for quick settlement. After four days of talks, OAS mediators announced that Panama's Foreign Minister Galileo Solis and U.S. Special Envoy Edwin M. Martin had reached what sounded like an encouraging agreement. Under the arrangement, Panama would resume diplomatic relations with the U.S. "as quickly as possible," then within 30 days both countries would sit down to review "all existing matters" of conflict. But not long after the communique was broadcast, everything came unstuck. Claiming victory, Chiari announced that the U.S. was committed to renegotiate...
...matter of semantics-a single verb in the agreement, but an all-important one. The Spanish-language version read "negociar"-to negotiate. The English version read "discuss." Panamanians insisted that since the working language of the OAS meetings was Spanish, their version was correct, and suggested that U.S. Envoy Martin, who does not speak Spanish, was confused. At first, the diplomats considered using the word discutir. But a Spanish-language purist objected that discutir implied argumentative discussion. Thus negociar, a softer word that means both discuss and negotiate, was substituted. Unconfused, Ed Martin at no time committed...
Gentlemen's Disagreement. In Paris, Ball also got a sympathetic reception, a pleasant change for a U.S. envoy these days. France last year exported to the Soviet bloc goods worth only about $266 million; Russian barter proposals, involving a swap of Soviet coal and oil for heavy industrial goods, are highly unattractive since France can sell its own coal and oil inside the Common Market. Besides, Charles de Gaulle believes that trading with the Soviets is a dirty business (although he seems willing to trade with Red China) and recently denied an export license to a leading French steel...