Word: ambassador
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...York, Arthur Goldberg reversed his ostensibly unalterable status of noncandidacy. He is available after all to oppose Governor Nelson Rockefeller's bid for a fourth term. With a long, distinguished career behind him -he was Secretary of Labor, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court and Ambassador to the United Nations-Goldberg, 61, could have had the Democratic nomination almost for the asking last December...
Inevitably, American and South Vietnamese troops were guilty of incursions as well, though not for protracted periods. Last December, Cambodia's United Nations Ambassador, Huot Sampoth, appealed for an end to "this war of extermination" in which, he said, more than 300 Cambodians had been killed and 700 wounded by U.S. and South Vietnamese forces. There was little, however, that Cambodia could do except complain: its scantily equipped 40,000-man armed forces could not adequately patrol Cambodia's ill-defined, 575-mile frontier with Viet Nam. A typical technique was to send a single Cambodian trooper, mounted...
...Peterson report to Nixon came only a day after word leaked out about a strong critique of U.S. aid programs prepared for Secretary of State William Rogers by the American Ambassador to Chile, Edward Korry. U.S. effectiveness has been impaired, Korry asserted, "by the persistence of inaccurate or outdated assumptions and by the pursuit of unrealistic objectives." Korry argued: "By not differentiating our development objectives in accordance with realities, we appear to be engaged in developing virtually the entire less-developed world." Like Peterson, Korry found the answer in joint responsibility by donors and receivers for financing and carrying...
...yearbook showing Harry and Bess in their caps and gowns. A saltier item among the souvenirs on loan from the Harry S. Truman Library is the ex-President's reply to a tongue-in-cheek suggestion from a U.S. Senator that he appoint the late John L. Lewis Ambassador to Russia. The mine workers' boss, reasoned Truman's correspondent, had a "more formidable" look than Stalin and could "roar louder" than Andrei Gromyko. A convincing argument. Replied the man from Missouri: "I wouldn't appoint John L. Lewis dogcatcher...
...Kenneth Onwuka Dike, a former ambassador-at-large for Biafra, has been named a tenured professor of History at Harvard. His appointment begins next Fall...