Word: envoys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...possible appointment as supreme commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was announced. Misled again, terHorst relayed an assurance from the White House that a recent visit to the Oval Office by Republican National Chairman George Bush was merely routine; the next day Bush was named U.S. envoy to China...
...envoy to the G.D.R...
...older brother Thomas Jr. took the reins of the parent company. Making his motto "world peace through world trade," he presided over a rise in IBM's foreign sales from less than $50 million to $2.5 billion annually. A major Republican contributor, Watson in 1970 was named U.S. envoy to Paris, where he served as an early diplomatic link with the Chinese Communists. He resigned his post in 1972 to rejoin IBM's board of directors...
...exist"-had tucked a spring-loaded knife into his pocket and gone for a walk in Cobham Park with his father, a retired chemist and seller of "fine, healthy leeches." Under the delusion that he was an avenging agent of the Egyptian god Osiris and his father a demonic envoy, Richard stabbed him. By the time Robert Dadd's gory corpse was found in the grass, the young man was on his way to Europe, planning to kill the Emperor of Austria. He was arrested in France, after trying to cut the throat of a stranger in a coach...
With Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin, say the Kalbs, Kissinger took a different though not necessarily inconsistent line. "Citing the demands from Capitol Hill for quick American aid to Israel and a reappraisal of the Administration policy of detente with Russia, he told the Russian envoy that he was holding back a rush of pro-Israeli actions. He appealed for Soviet cooperation in restraining the advancing Arab armies and in fostering a cease-fire in the Middle East...