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...Reversal of Alliances"? Into Moscow's Vnukovo Airport flew French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville for a six-day visit-the first French mission to Moscow at that level since 1956. If De Gaulle's envoy was there to lend the Russians nothing more than an ear, this itself was interesting, since the Russians seemed to have something that they would like to whisper into it-talk of a new move against West Germany. In recent months the Russians have been hinting at an interest in renewing the moribund Franco-Soviet treaty of December 1944, under which...
...federal drive is in addition to Los Angeles' long-stalled anti-poverty program, which another presidential envoy, Under Secretary of Commerce LeRoy Collins, finally unsnarled last week. Mayor Sam Yorty and private groups, deadlocked for months over control of the program, agreed to a 25-member anti-poverty board, composed of seven members from poverty areas, six from private agencies, and twelve from local government institutions. The compromise unstoppered $20 million in federal anti-poverty money that had been held up by Washington, and much of it will be funneled into the Watts district...
Tactful Transfer. Still, red-haired Green is a tough, talented envoy who thrives on contrasts and postings where U.S. influence is, to put it mildly, mild. He underwent his apprenticeship as personal secretary to the late, gallant U.S. Ambassador to Japan, Joseph Clark Grew (TIME, June 4, 1965) during the last stormy days before Pearl Harbor. As officer in charge of the U.S. embassy in Seoul in 1961, when General Chung Hee Park unseated the democratically elected President John Chang, Green outspokenly opposed the unconstitutionality of the new government, after which the State Department tactfully transferred him to Hong Kong...
...pledges of economic help, Frei's trip established a new feeling of understanding and community with Europe-not only on Chile's behalf but for all of Latin America. As Argentina's President Arturo Illia announced before the trip: "President Frei is considered a Latin American envoy to Europe...
...boundary dividing North and South Korea; today, despite an uneasy truce line guarded by 50,000 Americans and 550,000 South Korean troops, South Korea is a sovereign, non-Communist nation. Viet Nam: no conclusion is in sight, and Hanoi leaders are described by recent British Special Envoy Harold Davies as "intoxicated with their successes...