Word: yost
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Charles W. Yost, LL.D., U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations...
...Keating is a rank amateur compared to his predecessor, Chester Bowles. At the purple and ermine Court of St. James's, Philadelphia Publisher Walter Annenberg, who is inarticulate and inexperienced in diplomacy, replaced a brilliant and popular Foreign Service veteran, David K. E. Bruce. At the U.N., Charles Yost, an able but relatively obscure professional, moved into the chair once warmed by such noted men as Adlai Stevenson and Arthur Goldberg...
...Ambassadors Charles Yost of the U.S., Armand Bérard of France, Yakov Malik of the Soviet Union, and Lord Caradon of Britain gathered around the polished mahogany dining table in Bérard's Park Avenue flat...
Vital Interest. So deep are the wells of hate in the Middle East that perhaps no political leader could now withstand the consequences of a compromise settlement to end the mounting hostilities. If that is the case, says Charles Yost, who was named by Nixon two weeks ago to be his U.N. ambassador, "the necessary initiative can only come from outside"-preferably in agreement with Russia and negotiated through the U.N. That would represent a significant departure from U.S. policy, which up to now has been based on the premise that Arabs and Israelis should settle their own affairs. Writing...
...decisions that the new Administration cannot defer is the selection of people to run and represent the Government. Last week Richard Nixon made several appointments: >Charles W. Yost, 61, an author and retired career diplomat, became the surprise choice as Ambassador to the United Nations. Yost is a Democrat, but not the sort of prominent party man that Nixon had been seeking to give his Administration a bipartisan touch. Hubert Humphrey, Eugene McCarthy and Sargent Shriver all turned down the assignment, which traditionally has had more prestige-and problems-than power. Shriver had seemed the likeliest prospect, but is understood...