Word: go-between
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Chinese Protection. After Mohammed Ayub Khan took power ten years ago, Bhashani became the unofficial go-between who helped Ayub establish better relations with Peking. It was a role that shielded him from arrest while other Pakistani leaders were being packed off to Ayub's prisons for criticizing the army-backed regime...
...note for Lyndon Johnson, asking for clarification and suggesting further exchanges. So far, the U.S. envisages any big-power agreement not as a deal to be "imposed" but merely as a set of proposals that U.N. Special Representative Gunnar Jarring could present to Arabs and Israelis. He resumes his go-between role this month after five weeks at his regular post as Sweden's ambassador to Moscow. In any case, even a decision on four-power discussion, let alone its possible outcome, will be left to the incoming Nixon government...
...moment, Israel and Jordan seemed willing to go on talking indirectly through the U.N.'s go-between, Gunnar Jarring. But it is questionable how much longer the slim restraints of Jarring's mission can keep the Israelis from resorting to a major retaliation against the newly bellicose Arabs...
...Under Secretary of the Interior and later as Puerto Rico's paid counsel in Washington, Fortas had long and intimate connections with the island, which he has called "my second home." Johnson dispatched him to Puerto Rico in April 1965 as a secret go-between to the exile government of the Dominican Republic. Under the assumed name of J. B. Davidson, Fortas established an office in the Governor's summer home and set up a liaison between Johnson and Juan Bosch, the Dominican ex-President. Later, J. B. Davidson helped arrange the Republic's free elections. As one of Johnson...
...does?the U.S. will be traveling uncharacteristically light. During the Laos negotiations six years ago, the U.S. had a 126-man team. Harriman quickly decided that he wanted as his deputy a junior Foreign Service officer named William H. Sullivan, now the U.S. Ambassador to Laos and the chief go-between with the North Vietnamese in Vientiane. Impossible, snorted the State Department; Sullivan was outranked by whole battalions of bureaucrats. "I know," retorted Harriman. "I'm sending them home." Result: the cumbersome U.S. delegation was cut by two-thirds, and Harriman had Sullivan as his second-in-command...