Thank You, Comrade.
Posted on 03/18/2005 2:31:48 PM PST by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON (AP) - Sol M. Linowitz, a diplomat, lawyer and businessman who played key roles in Middle East peace negotiations and the Panama Canal treaty during the Carter administration, died Friday. He was 91.
The one-time chairman of Xerox Corp. died at his home in Washington, said the Academy for Educational Development, the nonprofit group where he had served as honorary board chairman since 1990.
Linowitz was ambassador to the Organization of American States during the Johnson administration and in 1977 helped negotiate the historic transfer of the Panama Canal to Panama. He also represented President Carter in Middle East peace negotiations that followed the 1978 Camp David accords.
In awarding him the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1998, President Clinton said: "If every world leader had half the vision Sol Linowitz does, we would have about a tenth as many problems as we've got in this whole world today."
A graduate of Cornell University Law School, Linowitz was partner and then senior counsel to the international law firm of Coudert Brothers from 1969-94.
He wrote two books: "The Making of a Public Man: A Memoir," and "The Betrayed Profession," in which he lamented what he saw as the decline of the legal profession.
In 1979, Linowitz joined the board of AED, a nonprofit group that works to improve educational, health and economic opportunities in the United States and developing countries.
Linowitz is survived by his wife, Toni, whom he married in 1939. They had four daughters and eight grandchildren.
Thank You, Comrade.
The Red Chinese will mourn his passing.
"in 1977 helped negotiate the historic transfer of the Panama Canal to Panama"
Thereby proving he was as much of an idiot as Jimmah Carter.... if there were any inevitability to the canal transfer (which there was not) we at least should have negotiated much better terms, such as barring forever any government or company from outside the Western Hemisphere from operating or in any way controlling the canal. Instead, we have the ludicrous and dangerous spectacle of Red China assuming major control of this crucial strategic waterway..... Jimmah Peanut and his friend Sol just gave it all away........
A more significant figure died Thursday evening--George F. Kennan, aged 101, the theoretician of "containment" of the Soviet Union.
Good point. I saw that.. Thanks!
George F. Kennan Dies at 101; Leading Strategist of Cold War ^
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1365226/posts
Who's gonna fill this pair and make it a trio of old diplomats passing?
Five dollars says its Kissinger by mid-April.
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