Word: ambassador
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jordan alone in trying to change the direction of recent arguments about black-Jewish relations, a problem that surfaced after the resignation of U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young following secret contact with the Palestine Liberation Organization. Benjamin L. Hooks, executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, sent a statement last week to the N.A.A.C.P.'s 1,700 U.S. branches urging that "our historic close working relationships with the American Jewish community" be maintained and strengthened...
...week's end, Soviet Ambassador to the U.S. Anatoli Dobrynin formally assured Secretary of State Cyrus Vance that Brezhnev was alive, if not entirely well, in the Kremlin. Quipped a Communist Party official in Moscow: "With rumors like that, Brezhnev should live for a hundred years...
...turmoil, which could only damage the reliability of a Far Eastern ally that has 39,000 U.S. troops stationed on its soil. Even before the rioting, the State Department had criticized what it called "a definite retrogression of human rights in South Korea" and showed its disapproval by recalling Ambassador William Gleysteen for "consultations." At week's end, Defense Secretary Harold Brown, accompanied by Gleysteen, went ahead with a long scheduled visit to Seoul. Even though he announced that the U.S. was withdrawing 1,500 of its support troops from the country, Brown reassured the South Koreans that...
...guest list read like a Who's Who of Camelot, with such notables as former speaker of the House John D. McCormack; John Kenneth Galbraith, Kennedy's ambassador to India and Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus; and former secretary of defense Robert W. McNamara conspicuous in the crowd...
...tour, organized by the Department of Commerce, is aptly timed. Last week on both sides of the Pacific, there were signs that the chill in Washington-Tokyo relations caused by the U.S.'s chronic and massive trade deficit with Japan was beginning to dissipate. Said Mike Mansfield, U.S. Ambassador to Japan: "It's been a good summer. I haven't heard the word protectionism for months." By contrast, he said, the previous two years had been "among the most difficult in the U.S.-Japanese relationship since the end of World War II." In Washington, even Congress...