Word: analyst
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...officials were certain that Teng and his aides would go on at length about the Soviets' "hegemonist intentions." Said a Government analyst who has heard Teng's presentations several times: "They've been doing that to us for six years." Another State Department expert predicted that no matter how muted Teng might prove in his public statements, in private he would stress that the primary object of his trip was to persuade the U.S. to take a tougher stance toward the Soviet Union. That, said the expert, would take precedence even over Teng's search for help in modernizing China...
...have been tempted to avoid this Latin American entanglement, as his short-lived predecessor had planned to do. But a leader with his vigorous makeup could hardly resist the challenge. "The Pope is coming to save the church. It's as simple as that," says a Mexican church analyst. Catholicism's future depends greatly on this region's believers, many of them "baptized but not yet sufficiently evangelized," as a bishop in Peru puts it. Religious education is often scant. Says a Vatican specialist, "In Latin America there are 42% of the world's Catholics...
...aging leadership abhors. Explains Gyula Jozsa, a Kremlinologist at Cologne's Institute of Eastern Studies: "The Soviets can see the logic of the need for the U.S. to recognize Peking. But what worries them is: How far and how quickly will subsequent relations develop between Washington and Peking?" An analyst at the Rand Corp. points out that the U.S.-Peking relationship "has the potential for the most fundamental realignment of forces since World War II," if it brings Japan into a "triad with an anti-Soviet vector...
...sloop that he had fancifully but appropriately named Brillig, from the "Jabber, wocky" in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass. After the body was discovered, the CIA insisted that there was no mystery. Paisley was not a spy, said a CIA press spokesman. He was an intelligence analyst. Moreover, he had retired from the agency in 1974. The CIA had no quarrel with Maryland state police theories that Paisley had committed suicide. Six months before his death, he had left his wife of 19 years-the mother of his two children-and developed a close relationship with another...
Henry Kissinger, in or out of power, is a judicious analyst of geopolitics. Last week the former Secretary of State discussed the global dimensions of the Iran crisis with TIME State Department Correspondent Christopher Ogden. Excerpts from the interview...