Word: ambassador
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With that touch of bravado, Andrew Young last week announced that he had resigned as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. Jimmy Carter, expressing "deep regret" in a handwritten letter, accepted the resignation of his close friend, fellow Southerner and one of his earliest and staunchest black political backers...
Even before Andy Young's venture, there were a number of U.S.-P.L.O. contacts, most notably by Milton Wolf, a leader of the Cleveland Jewish community and currently U.S. Ambassador in Austria, who met with Issam Sartawi, a Vienna-based P.L.O. official. Coming on top of the other contacts, Young's meeting with the P.L.O. set off alarms in Jerusalem. It seemed to confirm a shift in U.S. policy and clearly raised the level of contact; as U.N. Ambassador, Young sits in the Carter Cabinet...
Secretary Vance, flying back from a visit to Ecuador, got a cable informing him of Young's explanation. Naturally believing his ambassador and relieved at hearing that this had been only a chance encounter, rather than a violation of the U.S. pledge on the P.L.O., Vance authorized State Department Spokesman Tom Reston to release Young's explanation. He did so Monday noon...
With the news of some kind of a meeting out, Young decided to call on Israel's U.N. Ambassador Yehuda Blum, a Czechoslovakian-born expert on international law. What Young especially wanted to accomplish, he said, was to assure the Israelis that they were wrong to feel that "there was some grand conspiracy to change our policy toward the P.L.O...
That was exactly what Young already intended to do. During his 90-minute talk with Carter in the Executive Mansion's family quarters, the ambassador offered to resign. Young later hinted that he might have been able to keep his job if "I could promise that I wouldn't continue creating incidents. But I can't promise that." But some White House aides quibble with Young's recollection; they say that the President did not give his errant ambassador any real alternative to resignation...