Word: washington
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After a tour of duty in Washington in what seemed an innocuous job, Poland's Colonel Pawel Monat returned to Warsaw in May of last year. In the half-world of intrigue, he was a man to reckon with. His next official job was to coordinate the work of all military attaches in Polish embassies throughout the world, which, in a Communist country, meant that Monat had access to political as well as military intelligence and espionage, and presumably knew all there was to be known. Hard-working and trusted, Monat apparently had no trouble last summer getting permission...
...Warsaw, embarrassed intelligence agents concluded that Colonel Monat had turned himself over to U.S. agents in Vienna and had been shipped out secretly with his family. They glumly conceded that he might even have planned the entire operation during his 1958 tour of duty in Washington. Last week this educated guess proved correct. The story was broken from Vienna by the New York Times's Correspondent A. M. Rosenthal, who was recently expelled from Poland (TIME, Nov. 23) for "probing" too deeply into Polish affairs and was now free to report what he had not felt free to file...
...president of the powerful National Bank of Cuba went Felipe Pazos, 47, ranking Cuban banker, sound-money man, and onetime International Monetary Fund official in Washington. To replace him in Cuba's central bank, Castro named Major Ernesto ("Che")* Guevara, 31, the Red physician, who thereby got vast power over Cuba though he is Argentine born and bred...
...threats finally brought Livingston Merchant, top U.S. State Department troubleshooter, from Washington. Merchant's answer rocked them back on their heels. He merely reaffirmed Panama's "titular sovereignty" over the zone (as William Howard Taft had done 50 years before) and promised that zone commissaries would adopt a policy of buying only U.S. or Panamanian products-as soon as "normal conditions" were restored. Then he went home, leaving Panama to face the prospect of a mob action all too likely to be turned back on the "oligarchs" themselves...
...American Survey," a department introduced seven years ago). Yet last week, in 171 cities from New York to Los Angeles, the Economist did appear on U.S. newsstands. And sales were so brisk, even at 50? a copy, that some spots in Manhattan sold out in two days, while a Washington dealer, having run quickly through an allotment of a dozen, called plaintively for 18 more...