Word: toon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tiff. In a letter to Carter last week, Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev rejected Carter's invitation to an early summit; any such meeting, said Brezhnev, must await agreement on a new Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty. To transmit that message, Brezhnev called U.S. Ambassador Malcolm Toon to the Kremlin for a table-thumping attack on Carter's Soviet policy...
...United States, received yesterday Bukovsky, a criminal law offender from the Soviet Union who is known as an active opponent of the development of Soviet-American relations." On the day of the White House meeting, at which Vice President Walter Mondale was also present, U.S. Ambassador Malcolm Toon was summoned to Moscow's foreign ministry for "a frank exchange of views" on U.S.-Soviet relations-in short, for a chewing...
...redeployed closer to Israel. The Israelis were also concerned about reports that Syria was moving antiaircraft missiles into Lebanon. Israel considered that a threat, since no planes have been involved in a major way in the Lebanese fighting. Both Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Ambassador to Israel Malcolm Toon cautioned Israeli officials not to push Damascus too hard, lest Syria feel it had to respond to the challenge or lose face. Privately, American officials said they did not believe that either Israel or Syria would make a move along the border that would risk an outbreak...
...embassy official, Marshall Brement, a career diplomat, fluent in Russian and Chinese. His Soviet visa was canceled a few days after he arrived in the U.S. on a home leave. Even more significantly, the Kremlin has failed to respond to the nomination of U.S. Ambassador to Israel Malcolm Toon as the next American envoy to the Soviet Union. The Soviets may be displeased with Toon, a blunt career diplomat, who is an expert on East European affairs and who served two prior tours in Moscow. But they have not offered a single word of explanation of why no action...
...full of food, the vignette seems at first too recognizable. Any mother would bring along a chicken. But only Mrs. Lapinsky would present it snuggled in a pot, surrounded with potatoes and vegetables all cleaned and carefully cut, ready for the front burner. The scene becomes a classic car toon with a new caption...