Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...past five years, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko had simply been "too busy" to keep his end of a 1965 agreement calling for annual talks with the Japanese. All of a sudden, Gromyko is not too busy at all. From the moment he arrived at Tokyo's International Airport last week for a six-day stay, the normally dour Russian was the epitome of diplomatic affability...
There was nothing mysterious about the Foreign Minister's sudden affection for Japan. With President Nixon about to leave for Peking, and Tokyo-Washington relations still strained over the U.S. economic and diplomatic shokkus, it was obviously a good moment for the Soviets to reopen their dialogue with the Japanese...
Other interested parties have been angling for Tokyo's attention. In Peking, Chinese Premier Chou En-lai let it be known that China would support Japan's claim to the disputed islands, for whatever that was worth. In Washington, meanwhile, President Nixon appointed Robert S. Ingersoll, 58, chairman of the Borg-Warner Corp., as the new U.S. Ambassador to Japan to replace Armin Meyer, a career diplomat. Ingersoll has no foreign policy experience, but he is a driving, early-to-work industrialist who has built a family-controlled Chicago manufacturing business into a $1.2 billion conglomerate with global...
Harvard hockey star Dave Hynes has passed up a chance to play for the U.S. National hockey team at the Winter Olympics in Tokyo. Although he would have missed only three Harvard games after intersession--Penn, Northeastern and Clarkson--Hynes refused an invitation to report to the National's Minnesota camp on January...
...there would be a leak that would jeopardize the trip. When Rogers finally did call Sato to inform him, 20 minutes were lost in a search for a translator. To make certain of quick contact from now on, the U.S. agreed to install a hot line between Washington and Tokyo...