Word: go-between
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...Hill-a job he performed so well that Chief of Staff General George Marshall refused General Eisenhower's request for Persons' services in North Africa. Although Persons retired from the Army in 1949, Eisenhower persuaded him to return to active duty in 1951 to act as his go-between in Paris with foreign diplomats. He later served as Eisenhower's campaign adviser...
...alternatives. The only one that was made public was a plan known as "working group. According to this scheme, the foreign Ministers of Egypt, Syria and Jordan would go to New York or Washington to bargain indirectly with Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan, with Vance acting as a go-between. Because the working group" would fall short of being a formal conference, the P.L.O. probably need not be included. That would neatly circumvent Israel's refusal to negotiate with the P.L.O. as well as the Arab commitment to having the P.L.O. at Geneva...
Bhoolabhoy as go-between, her plan seems doomed to endless frustration...
...worth of parachutes, spare aircraft parts and uniforms to Kinshasa. But the Carter Administration postponed action on Mobutu's request in the hope that diplomatic efforts might halt the fighting. After talks with U.S. officials, Nigerian External Affairs Commissioner Joseph Garba pledged that his country would act as go-between. Other black African nations share Nigeria's concern that the fighting could turn into a full-blown...
Always a shrewd, careful scenarist (Accident, The Go-Between), Harold Pinter pays particular attention to the functional unreality of moviemaking. In one scene-not from Fitzgerald-a film editor expires noiselessly during the running of a new film. He is slumped in the front-row leather armchair, head rolled to one side in what must have been a last act of deference to the assembled executives. No last words, not even a cry for help. "He probably didn't want to disturb the screening," muses one of the nabobs...