Word: godley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...participants in the struggle but also a central issue as far as the Lebanese Christians are concerned; they resented the fact that the 320,000 Palestinians living in Lebanon had so much power. Beyond that, Washington has not had its top representative in Beirut since January: Ambassador G. McMurtrie Godley is on sick leave recovering from a throat cancer operation. But last week the State Department summoned L. Dean Brown, 55, a highly regarded Arabist, out of retirement to troubleshoot in the beleaguered city...
...banks whose headquarters are in Beirut have now left to settle elsewhere. By the end of last week 4,000 of the 5,000 Americans living in the city had made their way to the airport in armed caravans and filled outgoing flights to anywhere. U.S. Ambassador G. McMurtrie Godley ordered all families of American officials to leave. U.S. embassy Marines shifted to battle fatigues; stray small-arms fire ripped the building...
...standards to the last. In the restaurant, thoughtfully shifted back into the most protected area of the hotel because of snipers, service and cuisine merited the usual three stars. Scampi, saumon fumé, salade Niçoise-almost the full menu was available. On Monday U.S. Ambassador G. McMurtrie Godley was at one table, Christian Moderate Leader Ramond Edde near by at another. Shortly after 3, as Edde was finishing his coffee, an aide arrived to tell him the hotel had been taken over by a bunch of nervous and heavily armed youths from a right-wing Christian militia unit...
...keep his nastier acts from the public eye. So detente was played up, the bombings of Cambodia were to remain a secret, and the employment of 15,000 to 20,000 Thai mercenaries in Laos, in direct violation of congressional edict, would not be officially revealed until Ambassador Godley testified before Congress while Watergate, too, was under investigation by the Senate...
...Administration had other miseries with Congress last week. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee rejected Career Diplomat G. McMurtrie Godley's nomination to be Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and Pacific Affairs. As Ambassador to Laos since 1969, the committee's majority decided, Godley had been less than cleanly. Chairman J. William Fulbright and some others believe that Godley was involved in running a secret war in Laos during his tenure, and was part of a fraternity of Indochina experts responsible for most of the American mistakes there. The committee emphasized that it did not question Godley...