Word: wisner
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PARIS: With the death of Pamela Harriman, the diplomatic post par excellence is a toss-up between Frank Wisner, the most senior member of the U.S. foreign service, and New York financier Felix Rohatyn. But only Monsieur Felix has the means and Lazard Freres connections to entertain in the grand style of the City of Light...
...government and have often embroiled him in controversy. As a young Foreign Service officer in Vietnam, Holbrooke attracted the attention of ambassador to Saigon Henry Cabot Lodge and later of Averell Harriman, on whose staff he served at the Paris peace talks. Says U.S. Ambassador to India Frank Wisner, who worked with Holbrooke in Vietnam: "Dick has a passion for prominent people and an uncanny knack for figuring out their agendas." To get broader experience, Holbrooke left the Foreign Service to edit Foreign Policy magazine before rejoining the State Department as Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific...
...instinct about what plays abroad." Relations between the U.S. and India are normally prickly, but there was no need to irritate them further by letting more than a year go by without sending a U.S. ambassador to New Delhi (even now the expected choice, Under Secretary of Defense Frank Wisner, has not been formally named). Many Indians take the delay as a deliberate downgrading of their country, the world's largest democracy, to second-class status. Images matter a great deal in foreign capitals, where people draw powerful conclusions from what they see on CNN. Carnegie's Goble recalls...
While Jen L. Wisner '93 used to think that Headof the Charles was fun, by now she is "sick ofit...
...pain in the ass," Wisner said...