Word: envoys
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George Bush, 52, former Texas oil operator, Congressman, Republican national chairman and U.S. envoy to Peking who in 1975 became CIA director...
...totally libertarian world occurred when a group of libertarians claimed a coral reef in the Pacific as their own nation, with hopes of filling in enough land to establish a tiny island-nation where a libertarian paradise could reign. Their hopes were demolished when an envoy of angry tribesmen from a nearby island informed them that the island was already their property...
...career diplomat, fluent in Russian and Chinese. His Soviet visa was canceled a few days after he arrived in the U.S. on a home leave. Even more significantly, the Kremlin has failed to respond to the nomination of U.S. Ambassador to Israel Malcolm Toon as the next American envoy to the Soviet Union. The Soviets may be displeased with Toon, a blunt career diplomat, who is an expert on East European affairs and who served two prior tours in Moscow. But they have not offered a single word of explanation of why no action has been taken on the nomination...
...face appeared in Washington last week, and insiders were trying to figure out how important he was. Charles Kirbo of Atlanta was Jimmy Carter's hand-picked envoy to the capital. TIME National Political Correspondent Robert Ajemian visited Kirbo in Atlanta before he came north. Reports Ajemian...
French Charge d'Affaires Marie-Daniel Bourree, Chevalier de Corberon, has already reported to Paris that "Potemkin's reign is drawing to a close, even though he is smiled upon." Swedish Envoy Baron Frederik Nolcken speaks of the prince's "feigned or real disgrace." British Charge Richard Oakes believes "his favor to be absolutely at an end," and furthermore "it would not be surprising to see him end his career in a monastery...