Word: ambassadorships
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Democratic Senator Dennis DeConcini and Republicans Jesse Helms, Alfonse D'Amato and Pete Wilson urged George Bush and Baker to name Von Raab drug czar or at least reward him with an ambassadorship. They were rebuffed. But Von Raab's highly public parting shots may soon give Bush reason to wish he had kept his audacious Customs commissioner inside the tent...
...pledged, would not "recognize or negotiate with" the Palestine Liberation Organization until the P.L.O. accepted Israel's right to exist. Washington later added another condition, that the P.L.O. renounce terrorism. With the exception of occasional clandestine contacts and the publicized breach that cost Andrew Young his U.N. ambassadorship, the stricture has been U.S. policy ever since...
...revolution. The general, who has helped frustrate five coup attempts against the President, may have called in his debts last week. When it became clear that Aquino wanted to keep her friend Arroyo in the Cabinet -- and to shunt Ramos into a less strategic post, or perhaps even an ambassadorship -- the general balked. Amid a sudden rumor that loyal generals would stage a coup if Arroyo was retained, Aquino relented. "If Cory had her choice, as she used to," said a Western analyst in Manila, "she would have kept Joker on and kicked Ramos upstairs. But to her dismay...
...future reflects his prominence. Administrators predict that fresh back from a sabbatical, Bok is ready for up to four more years at Harvard's helm. Prognosticators here and elsewhere say that he may be in line for an ambassadorship similar to that of retiring Yale President Kingman Brewster took a post at the Court of St. James. Others say he may take the helm of an educational foundation as Nathan M. Pusey '28 did when he left Harvard to head the Mellon Foundation...
...shoe aristocrat. As a movie-industry wheeler-dealer in the '20s, he introduced a bit of Harvard to Hollywood. But back East it was show business as usual, especially when he introduced his mistress Gloria Swanson to Rose. The high point of his social climb was undoubtedly the * ambassadorship to the Court of St. James's in 1938. "This is a helluva long way from East Boston," he told his wife during a weekend with the King and Queen at Windsor Castle...