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The collaboration led to the foreign service school's Institute for the Study of Diplomacy.
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Krogh called Mr. Simpson an "absolute pit
bull" on making the intricacies of diplomacy
central to the new institute and said he was
not shy about complaining when he thought
"we strayed a bit from the mold he had in
mind." Mr. Simpson taught night classes at
Georgetown and moved to Charlottesville 52
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R. Smith Simpson, Foreign Service officer and
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After an early career with the National Recovery Administration, a New Deal agency, Mr.
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and early 1960s.
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Survivors include two daughters, Margaret Maurin Stunkard of Bryn Mawr, Pa., and Zelia The Charismatic Warlord Afghans Wish al-Qaida ...
Broyles of Vinton, Va.; three granddaughters; and five great-grandchildren.
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