Word: envoys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deliver messages from his former captors to the Pope, the Archbishop of Canterbury and President Reagan. He was determined to do this in person in order to leave no doubt whatever in his captors' minds that he had kept his word, explained Terry Waite, the Archbishop's special envoy, who has visited Beirut three times in an effort to gain the hostages' release...
...black militant African National Congress. But then he downplayed the possibility, pointing out that the A.N.C. did not represent all blacks and that Washington still had problems with the A.N.C.'s "commitment to violence and ties to the Soviet Union." Poindexter also mentioned that a high-level U.S. envoy might be sent to Pretoria, but then admitted that an envoy could achieve little. Last week White House Spokesman Larry Speakes reiterated that the Government was considering only a "shift in emphasis" in the constructive-engagement policy...
...suspect dealings and not be limited to the two cited by the Justice Department: Deaver's approach last summer to then White House National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane on behalf of a tax break for Puerto Rico, and his participation in a meeting last October with the special U.S. envoy to Canada concerning the acid rain issue. One new area emerged that Seymour might delve into: Deaver's approach to FCC Chairman Mark Fowler last year on behalf of his client CBS during the Ted Turner takeover bid for the network. Deaver says he merely wanted to talk about...
...saltiest, immerses him in the Taiping Rebellion, a nominally Christian uprising that lasted 14 years and resulted in some 20 million deaths. Based on a reputation for valor, acquired by stumbling into dangerous places at well-publicized times, the intrepid Flashman becomes Britain's semiofficial envoy to the revolutionaries. His escapades, both military and carnal, bring verve and wit to a carefully footnoted tale. Young Tom Brown was certainly more the gentleman, but he could not possibly have grown up to be so much...
...Central Committee Secretary in the Kremlin, diplomatic circles speculated that the Kremlin would pick as his successor another Americanologist, perhaps one of the highly regarded new generation of experts from the Foreign Ministry. So it came as a shock last week when Moscow announced that its new envoy to Washington was Yuri V. Dubinin, 55, a West European specialist who speaks little English...