Word: atherton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...took first-class honors at Somerville College, Oxford, in modern and medieval French. There followed a period in which, as Hone prudishly puts it, she "realized the promises of physical sensuality." After two failed love affairs and an illegitimate son (whom she placed with a country cousin), Sayers married Atherton Fleming, a badly wounded war veteran. She wrote detective novels to supplement her income from an advertising job, but quickly determined to make the genre "become once more a novel of manners instead of a pure crossword puzzle...
Egyptian and Israeli officials welcomed the appointment. State Department sources insisted that it was not a slap at Alfred L. Atherton Jr., the career diplomat who preceded him in this job and who will be named Ambassador to Cairo. As one former aide put it, Strauss can "take two guys that are in total disagreement with each other into a room and walk out later with neither of the two satisfied but both having stepped a lot closer together." One Texas-size question: Will the cajoling style that served Strauss so well in smoke-filled rooms at Democratic conventions have...
Behind the pageantry and the politicking, the Americans and Egyptians were working on the issues still stalling the peace settlement. Involved in various aspects of the bargaining was the platoon of advisers accompanying Carter. In addition to Vance, they included Brzezinski, Defense Secretary Harold Brown and U.S. Envoy Roy Atherton. White House officials had been careful not to encourage hopes of success. On the flight to Cairo, a senior presidential aide stressed that Carter was "not particularly" optimistic and was "well aware of the fact that it is much easier for things to go wrong than to go right." This...
Carter walked across the street in the autumn sunshine for lunch at Blair House. U.S. Ambassador Roy Atherton excused himself from one session and strolled to the Oval Office to fill in the President. Israel's Dayan and Weizman took the short journey to the White House, inhaling sparkling air and enjoying the fall coloring of the trees along Pennsylvania Avenue. Whether at the White House or Blair House, the coffeepots perked merrily...
...conversations said that the President "did some extremely straight talking-especially with the Israelis-reminding them what both sides had agreed to at Camp David and what had to be done." Dayan and Egypt's Acting Foreign Minister Boutros Ghali then met for 4% hours with Alfred Atherton, the State Department's roving ambassador to the Middle East. After that came the negotiators' tentative agreement on a draft treaty...