Word: envoys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Departing Hanoi last week, Soviet Envoy Aleksandr Shelepin proclaimed that the Soviets, as a result of his week of talks with Ho & Co., will "support and assist the Vietnamese with all their might in consolidating the defense potential of North Viet Nam." Carefully left unsaid was whether the Kremlin troubleshooter had promised Hanoi significantly more arms for the war or urged an arm's-length look at the possibility of a negotiated peace. Or both...
...that "to take Marxism as an absolute and comprehensive ideology conflicts with the Arab revolution, which is basically nationalist." Syria would remain socialist, if somewhat less stridently. Abroad this would mean happier relations with its moderating socialist as well as non-socialist Arab neighbors (last week Damascus received an envoy from Kuwait to renew negotiations for a $56 million Kuwaiti loan), and at home a better break for what remains of Syria's long-beleaguered middle class...
...Reversal of Alliances"? Into Moscow's Vnukovo Airport flew French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville for a six-day visit-the first French mission to Moscow at that level since 1956. If De Gaulle's envoy was there to lend the Russians nothing more than an ear, this itself was interesting, since the Russians seemed to have something that they would like to whisper into it-talk of a new move against West Germany. In recent months the Russians have been hinting at an interest in renewing the moribund Franco-Soviet treaty of December 1944, under which...
...federal drive is in addition to Los Angeles' long-stalled anti-poverty program, which another presidential envoy, Under Secretary of Commerce LeRoy Collins, finally unsnarled last week. Mayor Sam Yorty and private groups, deadlocked for months over control of the program, agreed to a 25-member anti-poverty board, composed of seven members from poverty areas, six from private agencies, and twelve from local government institutions. The compromise unstoppered $20 million in federal anti-poverty money that had been held up by Washington, and much of it will be funneled into the Watts district...
...pledges of economic help, Frei's trip established a new feeling of understanding and community with Europe-not only on Chile's behalf but for all of Latin America. As Argentina's President Arturo Illia announced before the trip: "President Frei is considered a Latin American envoy to Europe...