Word: missioners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tender springtime bloom seemed to have returned to U.S.-Soviet relations as Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and U.S.S.R. Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko huddled last week in Geneva. Their meeting spanned a diplomatic climate more congenial to detente than the chill that had engulfed Vance's abortive mission to Moscow at the end of March...
...Geneva, was the wide-open diplomacy that had so irritated the Soviets during the ill-fated Moscow meeting. Vance avoided almost all contact with the press in Geneva. So, of course, did Gromyko. As he and Vance posed for photographers beneath a big portrait of Brezhnev at the Soviet mission, a reporter asked him how the talks were going. Said Gromyko: "We are silent like fish." Equally pleasing to the Soviets must be the recent low-decibel level of the Administration's human rights drive...
...interview with TIME Correspondent Bonnie Angela shortly before his departure last week on his latest diplomatic mission, Vice President Walter Mondale reflected on the duties, rewards and hazards of his often disparaged office. Excerpts...
...Mission to Moscow. It was partly because of the possibility of a war over Djibouti that Mengistu visited Moscow this month to solidify his new alliance with the Soviet Union. Mengistu and Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny signed a declaration laying the "foundations for friendship and cooperation"-diplomatic sugar-coating on Moscow's agreement last December to supply Ethiopia with $100 million in arms. Moscow had good reason to show such benign feelings: Mengistu last month expelled all American military advisers, communications experts and information officials on the ground that the U.S. had helped the late Emperor "suppress the liberation...
...preclude Turkish drilling in much of the Aegean. Nonetheless, the Turks last year dispatched the seismographic ship Sismik1 to carry on oil explorations near several Greek islands; the converted trawler was challenged by Greek destroyers and a battle was narrowly averted. Sismik1 was supposed to sail on another exploratory mission this month, but its departure has been postponed. Ironically, the oil at Thassos is not only of poor quality but is also expensive to exploit, and petroleum experts are skeptical about how much oil there really is. "They think it's Oklahoma out there," says an American engineer...