Word: superdiplomat
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...Reagan Administration last week stood largely on the sidelines. The Administration's major Middle East initiative was to appoint a new special envoy for the peace process, to be stationed permanently in the region. The superdiplomat: Wat Cluverius, 50, a respected Middle East expert and former U.S. consul general in East Jerusalem. Cluverius will handle chores previously assigned to Assistant Secretary of State Murphy, who has shuttled between Washington and the Middle East since February...
...William O. Douglas, chairman of the conference, strode through the bar with his miniskirted blonde wife in tow. The place was jammed with students in opentoed sandals, bearded scientists, well-tailored businessmen, lawyers and politicians. A star of the meeting turned out to be Arvid Pardo, a sort of superdiplomat who serves as Malta's delegate to the U.N. and the Maltese Ambassador to Washington and Moscow. Three years ago, Pardo introduced a U.N. resolution calling for an international authority to administer the oceans and ensure that the seabeds would be used for peaceful purposes. Result: appointment...
...British were standoffish and haughty. I never learned to like them." He did learn to imitate their cool, diplomatic ways. As the years rolled by and Victor Emmanuel's monarchy gave way to Benito Mussolini's dictatorship, the village boy became a perfect embodiment of that superdiplomat-the diplomatic gentleman's gentleman. As a tactful and understanding embassy servant he was entrusted with all sorts of delicate missions by the well-born young Britons of His Majesty's Foreign Service. He got them theater tickets, arranged discreet assignations, and even took over some of their official...
This Czechoslovakian superdiplomat returned to Prague last week, summoned in haste from a meeting of the Little Entente. There dinned upon his ears the demand of his party (Czech National Socialist) that he resign as Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia-as right hand man of patriarchal President Masaryk...
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