Word: rusk
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...Dean Rusk, Secretary of State from 1961 to '69, wrote to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in March, suggesting that the NSC adviser should not have the power to negotiate, nor should he have a press secretary running around town promoting the fellow's personality and position. "The Assistant for National Security Affairs should not attempt to organize his office as a mini-foreign office," Rusk wrote...
...Modern communications have speeded up the course of world events. Almost every week, you get an indication of the importance of the man on the scene." That dictum, from former Secretary of State Dean Rusk is one of Associate Editor Jordan Bonfante's favorite quotations of the past few months. Rusk was talking about the continuing importance of America's beleaguered diplomatic service, but Bonfante thinks the words might just as easily apply to TIME's own well-traveled corps of foreign correspondents. In trying to describe and assess the increasing number of assaults on diplomatic privilege...