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Knowing the Niceties. Who is this all-important Dean? Well, he is Guillermo Sevilla-Sacasa, little Nicaragua's Ambassador to the U.S. By virtue of having served in Washington longer than any other foreign ambassador, Sevilla-Sacasa is the "Dean of the Corps." As such, he acts as adviser, style setter, protocol arbiter and ceremonial representative for the capital's entire ambassadorial corps. Dean since 1958, Sevilla-Sacasa attends about 600 official functions a year, greets every chief of state who visits Washington. To avoid contretemps, he has to remember the names, faces and precise protocol standings...
With his waddling walk and jolly demeanor, pudgy Sevilla-Sacasa does not look very ambassadorial, but he has splendid qualifications for the deanship: a lot of pocket money, a large capacity for cocktails, an imperturbable stomach, a gift for small talk and a good memory. He takes his deanly duties seriously. "Thirty years ago," he clucks, "diplomats were expected to be aware of all phases of diplomacy before they came to Washington. Not so today. They need help, and this is what I am here for." One highly important help is Sevilla-Sacasa's method for introducing a newly...
Meeting Mr. Martini. Last week Sevilla-Sacasa rounded out 20 years as his country's ambassador to the U.S. In that post, he has served under four U.S. Presidents, eight Secretaries of State and six Nicaraguan chiefs of government. During his two decades in Washington, he has accumulated nine children, 34 medals and 4,400 photographs of himself and his family. A passionate baseball fan, he calls his children "my baseball team...
...ball and her peer group rattled the chandeliers keeping time to the Bo Diddley twist combo-and took their refreshments from a mobile hot-dog cart. Some Latino envoys-notably the uninvited-muttered sourly that the'affair was a "profanation" of the OAS building, but Nicaraguan Ambassador Guillermo Sevilla-Sacasa. dean of the capital's diplomatic corps, pronounced it "a perfectly beautiful party...
...party-loving diplomats in Washington, none is so indefatigable as Nicaragua's Ambassador Dr. Guillermo Sevilla-Sacasa, dean of the diplomatic corps (miniatures of 33 medals, one sash), who in his social seniority sometimes attends a luncheon, three receptions and a dinner all in one day, so far this year has been seen at 513 such functions. Busy, portly Sevilla-Sacasa scarcely has time to throw a party...