Word: ambassador
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...policy aides were engaged in public disputes over who was in charge of U.S. policy in the Middle East and over what that policy should be. The disputes set off dangerous waves. Leaders of black and Jewish organizations, still at odds over the resignation of Andrew Young as U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., held a series of meetings that ended in mutual recriminations...
...following day the black group called on Israeli Ambassador Blum and told him that it made "no apologies for our support of Palestinian human rights, just as we make no apologies to the P.L.O. for our continued support of the state of Israel." Replied Blum: "It's ridiculous to equate us with the P.L.O. It's like equating criminals to a police force...
...good" was Ambassador Robert Strauss's verdict on his own mission to the Middle East. He openly complained about the instructions that had been given him and asked who was in charge of U.S. policy on the Middle East. It was an astonishing question for a U.S. diplomat to raise in public. TIME Washington Bureau Chief Robert Ajemian provides at least part of the answer in this report...
...leader, Andrew Young was generally considered a skillful diplomat. He was a conciliator, a charmer, one who could quietly negotiate a compromise between even the angriest adversaries. While shouting demonstrators surrounded the Birmingham jail where Martin Luther King Jr. was imprisoned during a civil rights protest, Young was the ambassador who dealt with Police Commissioner Eugene ("Bull") Connor and won a promise to end segregation of facilities at large downtown stores...
...open market" basis, the only items private hawkers sell are vegetables, spices and such miscellany as incense, pith helmets and plastic shoes. With monthly family incomes averaging $30 and prices up more than 600% above 1975 levels, few can afford anything beyond necessities. Just since 1978, observes one Western ambassador, "the standard of living has declined enormously...