Word: envoys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...message came from Sir Humphrey Gibbs, who for five months has lived in virtual isolation as the British Governor of rebel Rhodesia. It was directed to Harold Wilson, and its contents were secret, but it sent Wilson's personal envoy Oliver Wright flying into Salisbury for talks with Prime Minister Ian Smith. What were the talks all about? "To see whether a basis for negotiations genuinely exists" was all that Wilson would tell the British Parliament last week, and Smith was equally evasive. "We are always prepared to take part in constructive discussions with anybody," he announced in Salisbury...
...swept through Danang and publicly burned the Ky proclamation for elections. They demanded that the generals step down immediately. With ousted General Thi openly agreeing and much of I Corps in rebellion against Saigon's control, Thich Tri Quang prepared this week to fly back home as a "peace envoy" to Hué, where lies his chief strength. Whether as peace envoy or missionary of discontent, he will more and more bear on his slim and restless shoulders the welfare and continued viability of South Viet...
...Postmaster General, lohn Gronouski, to be U.S. Ambassador to Poland, just about everyone remarked on his lack of diplomatic credentials. But the President had something more in mind for his ex-Cabinet member than sitting around Warsaw waiting to see elusive Polish officials. In effect, he made him his envoy to Eastern Europe, with specific marching orders to travel and to build as many new bridges as possible between the U.S. and the Communist nations. Last week Gronouski finished the first phase of that mission, a tempestuous, ten-day tour of Rumania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Bulgaria aimed at scouting...
...peace treaty with Russia, Austria believes that even "associate" status in the EEC would mean tariffs so low that competition would force its sluggish home industries to become more efficient. Of course, some Austrian firms would perish in the process. "They'd die anyway eventually," shrugs Austrian EEC Envoy Eugen Buresch. As harsh as that prescription sounds, Austria seems willing to swallow it to bolster its economic strength...
Leader. One of Humphrey's greatest satisfactions is the increase in the number of nations that are giving South Viet Nam nonmilitary aid-and his own role in that increase as a roving envoy in Asia. Since his last trip, the number of cooperating countries has risen from 32 to 39, with contributions ranging from a West German hospital ship to Israeli agricultural and medical teams...