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...leading and probable" candidate to replace Hinton is Gerald E. Thomas, a retired Navy admiral who is Ambassador to Guyana. A black, Thomas had once been proposed by Clark for a position under Enders in Washington, but Enders had opposed him. Thomas, 53, who holds a Ph.D. in diplomatic history from Yale and has been a Russian interpreter, is seen by the White House as a nonbureaucratic type of "cando" diplomat...
...British Broadcasting Corp., which picked up the revealing reports in its routine monitoring of foreign radio transmissions, experts said that Danchev had made a similar mistake a week earlier. That broadcast also concerned Afghanistan. One Western diplomat was convinced that the mistakes were deliberate. Said he: "It represents the first time that the Soviet media have rebelled against the Kremlin's policy in Afghanistan...
Ironically, Bouterse was initially so suspicious of the left that he expelled a Cuban diplomat suspected of subversive plotting and imprisoned a radical activist for meeting Cuban leaders in Nicaragua. But with the encouragement of Grenada's Prime Minister Maurice Bishop, who had led a Marxist coup on his nearby Caribbean island in 1979, Bouterse drifted gradually leftward. Soon he was visiting Fidel Castro, singing his praises and allowing the Soviets and Cubans to open well-staffed embassies in the riverfront capital of Paramaribo. Nevertheless, Bouterse's revolutionary fervor remained relatively lackadaisical: he never bothered to nationalize private...
...last summer, however, Assad's room for maneuver shrank. Two months ago, Syrian Ambassador Muhammad Ah' Halabi presented his credentials in Moscow. Despite the dramatic increase in Soviet military aid to Syria, foreign analysts are leery of attaching too much importance to the relationship. Says a Western diplomat in Damascus: "Right now this is a very happy marriage of convenience...
Relations between Washington and Kabul became even frostier than usual last week after Afghanistan expelled U.S. Second Secretary Peter Graham, accusing the diplomat of selling pornographic literature in exchange for rugs. Calling the charge "ludicrous and wholly without foundation," the State Department retaliated by ordering Masjaedi Hewadmal, second secretary at the Afghan embassy in Washington, to leave...