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...years ago, student protesters were disciplined for blockading a South African diplomat in the Lowell House Junior Common Room after the blockade became violent...
...long as possible to wear the terrorists down. In the words of Vice Chairman Martin R. Shugrue Jr. of Pan Am, which has been promoting its new, improved security system, every expert on the subject counseled, "Negotiate, negotiate, negotiate. Buy time, buy time, buy time." Indeed, a U.S. diplomat in Karachi who had been involved in bargaining with the hijackers said later, "The game plan was to keep them talking as long as possible...
...prominent Swedish diplomat and a U.S. Congressman yesterday attacked the Reagan Administration's Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) and instead called for nuclear arms control, in a symposium entitled "International Relations in an Interdependent World: A Look at Ends and Means...
...class notes for his 25th Reunion, Daniloff said he originally wanted to be a diplomat, but was not accepted into the foreign service, the Central Intelligence Agency, or the United States Information Agency. His career in journalism began by chance--he walked into the Washington Post in 1956 and was hired as a copy...
Many officials were quick to criticize Gorbachev's overtures as transparent public relations stunts. "It's one more chance for Gorbachev to try to make the Soviet Union look like it's pursuing peace," said a Western diplomat, "while the White House goes on endangering the world." But the Soviets' campaign has been effective, particularly in Western Europe (with the notable exception of France), and some analysts think the U.S. should be more flexible. Former Defense Secretary James Schlesinger faults the Administration for "losing the initiative" in the arms-control game. He suggests that the U.S. resist a complete moratorium...