Word: pouches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Barua a Soldani, a letter from a king (Denmark's Christian X), to the chest of a young native writhing in agony from a badly fractured leg? As the letter became a relic, stiff with blood and grime, and passed from hand to hand in a cabalistic pouch, it also became "a covenant signed between the Europeans and the Africans -no similar document of this same relationship is likely to be drawn up again." Many writers affect to understand Africa; Author Dinesen accepts and respects its opacities ("All roots demand darkness"). She draws a memorable portrait of Farah...
...Taft's succinct characterization of Chester Bowles gets general approval despite the fact that over a period of 20 years, Bowles has plowed through a long series of jobs that generally require the soft, sure touch of tact. What he lacked in the diplomat's pouch of tact, he made up for with a bottomless bag of ideas, a gift of gab and unswerving earnestness for his causes...
...expropriated Cuban TV stations, G.M. distributorship), dispatches some of its 2,000 copies under "official" sponsorship: sailors in Castro's coast guard, restive under the dictatorship, smuggle in the twelve-page, heavily illustrated standard-size paper. Other copies reach their destination by private boat nd through the diplomatic pouch of anti-Castro governments. The eight-column paper (circ. 11,000) is varityped in Miami, sent to New Jersey for printing, then flown back to Miami. Of El Mundo's staff of 25, only four or five are actually reporters. One regular beat: Miami's International Airport, where...
...clashes of pro-and anti-Castro rioters and fatally shot him in a doorway. In Argentina, intelligence agents confronted the Cuban ambassador with documentary proof of his complicity in a plot by followers of ex-Dictator Juan Peron to overthrow President Arturo Frondizi; the agents also found his diplomatic pouch stuffed with Che's pamphlets on guerrilla warfare and instructions on how to bomb bridges. Brazil also expelled an intriguing Cuban embassy attache...
Harem Asylum. Author Thayer is a fascinating raconteur of diplomatic lore; he knows about the envoys who used to smuggle silk stockings for their Russian mistresses into the Soviet Union via diplomatic pouch, and about Sir Mortimer Durand, onetime British minister in Teheran, who agreed to extend political asylum to 300 dissident members of the Shah's harem. Thayer is equally enlightening about diplomatic immunity (even corpses are immune from autopsies), espionage (one of his favorites is the operative who transported his supply of invisible ink by impregnating his socks with it), the character of embassy receptionists (they...