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...President's nomination of former Kennedy Aide Theodore Sorensen as CIA director ran into trouble, Byrd sounded no warning. Says a junior Democratic Senator: "He just wanted to teach Carter a lesson." Sorensen withdrew under pressure. That lesson was followed by others, as Byrd repeatedly criticized Carter's legislative liaison staff as bumbling, finally declaring of the President last June: "He's in over his head...
DIED. Robert Daniel Murphy, 83, tough-minded diplomat, and in 1959 Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs; after suffering a stroke; in Manhattan. As General Eisenhower's diplomatic liaison during World War II, Murphy worked with the French underground, mixing negotiation, espionage and bluffing to engineer the virtually bloodless surrender of Algiers to the Allies in 1942. In 1948 he helped to devise the Berlin airlift when the Soviets blockaded the city, and four years later became the first postwar Ambassador to Japan, helping negotiate an end to the Korean War. Although Murphy retired in 1959, he continued...
...vital concern to the U.S. military. Unless they have specific clearance, Air Mike passengers are barred from leaving the plane during refueling stops on Johnston, a storage dump for poisonous gas; nobody gets off at Kwajalein, a target for missiles test-fired from California. Says Commander David Burt, Navy liaison to the trust territory government: "The fact that they're smack dab in the middle of the ocean makes all these islands important...
Another junior racquetman, John Fishwick, cited a different reason for Panarese's success as captain. Fishwick said, "Mark can communicate well with both the team and Dave Fish and thus he can effectively perform the captain's liaison duties...
...London (under John Kennedy) as well as Paris. His last assignment, fittingly, was as Ambassador to NATO, and ended only last year. Though Bruce was a lifelong Democrat, Richard Nixon named him to head the American delegation at the Viet Nam peace talks in Paris, and later the U.S. liaison office in Peking. Said West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, upon Bruce's departure from Bonn: "If you Americans can't stand Bruce back here again, at least send somebody just like...