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According to the Cloud's documents, the ship was on a perfectly legal mission, heading for Nigeria to unload its cargo. Although the Venezuelans initially thought the weapons could have been destined for Cuba or Nicaragua, the Nigerian embassy in Caracas and the ship's Greek owners confirmed the destination. That did not answer the question of why, for 62 days, no one bothered to search for the Cloud or claim its explosive cargo...
Shultz countered the diplomatic insurgency by announcing that Hinton's replacement in El Salvador would be Thomas R. Pickering, 51, a distinguished career diplomat who is currently U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria. Pickering thus becomes the third member of a new diplomatic troika. The other two previously appointed members are L. Anthony Motley, 45, who was Ambassador to Brazil, and Richard Stone, a former Democratic Senator from Florida, who was sworn in last week as the State Department's special envoy to Central America. Said Shultz: "[Pickering] is the best possible man for the job. We picked...
...Motley, Pickering is a low-key but highly regarded career diplomat who has quietly glided up in the State Department hierarchy. Having been executive secretary of the State Department, a high post involving Internal management, Pickering served as Ambassador to Jordan from 1974 to 1978 and, since 1981, to Nigeria. In both nations, he won admirers. A senior Jordanian diplomat remembers him as one of Washington's best envoys to the kingdom, "a first-rate professional diplomat who always dealt with us honestly and intelligently." Beneath his softspoken, scholarly demeanor, Pickering can be personable and witty. Indeed, he established...
...losing to other beverages. Dairymen, Inc., an 8,000-member cooperative based in Louisville, is now selling whole and low-fat milk in the new packs, as well as such flavored varieties as chocolate, strawberry, banana and fruit-punch milk. It is also exporting milk in aseptic packages to Nigeria and the Caribbean. Says Larry Johnson, Dairymen's vice president of marketing development: "It's opening up new markets...
SOUTH AFRICA'S landlocked neighbors may have little choice but to deal with her. But that excuse cannot hold for all the nations above Israel on the list; some of the regime's best trading partners are oil-rich Nigeria and Zaire, both thousands of miles to the north. Most blatant of all is the hypocrisy of the Arab states which proposed the Vienna conference, which pump 400,000 barrels of oil a day into the apartheid economy. And the Daily Times of Nigeria reports that even armaments destined for Saudi Arabia and Iraq mysteriously find their way to South...