Word: envoys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Keep Them Talking. As ambassador to Moscow, succeeding Foy Kohler, Johnson picked Llewellyn E. Thompson, 62, one of the best working Sovietologists in Government. "Tommy" Thompson has spent nine years in the Soviet Union, five of them as ambassador-longer than any other American envoy -speaks fluent Russian, and has been a Kremlin watcher since 1933, when President Roosevelt first recognized the Bolshevist regime...
...ambassador to Moscow from 1957 to 1962, Thompson was able to work more closely with Soviet leaders than any other postwar U.S. envoy. His firsthand knowledge of Nikita Khrushchev's mind helped Thompson to divine Moscow's reactions throughout the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. He has been the State Department's chief resident negotiator with the Russians ever since...
...Banana. To succeed Thompson as ambassador at large, Johnson named Ellsworth Bunker, 72, a courtly, tough-minded troubleshooter. It was Bunker's Yankee courage and persistence, above all, that brought peace and honest elections to the Dominican Republic in 1966 after its acrid civil war. As an envoy of the Organization of American States, the tall, white-haired New Englander-moved unconcerned past furious rebels and through gunfire to meet the warring politicos and cajole them into signing a ceasefire. Later he served as mediator during the cliff-hanging months before President Joaquín Balaguer's inauguration...
...Deputy Under-Secretary of State for Political Affairs, Kohler will handle the Department's relations with the C.I.A. and the Defense Department. He does not have the Asian expertise of Ambassador to Japan U. Alexis Johnson; but he has been a widely-praised envoy to the U.S.S.R. in a time of strain and will be hard to replace in that post...
...Tunku (from Kuala Lumpur) announced that the missing Tun had been turned in. In Canberra, the protocol chieftain explained that "a good Samaritan" had brought him back in a car from Sydney, 200 miles away, after a ten-day absence. The mysterious Samaritan was said to have found the envoy, ill and vomiting, wandering in Sydney shortly after he disappeared, cared for him during the next eight days, and conveniently discovered who he was for the first time on the ninth...