Word: diplomat
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Soviet Union's 105,000 troops have failed in rooting out the mujahedin, the ragtag but stubborn guerrillas who control most of the countryside. Neither side has gained or lost much ground over the past three years, and all signs point to a continuing stalemate. Although diplomats began to speculate last November that new Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov would try to find a face-saving compromise that would allow the Soviet Union to withdraw from its Afghan quagmire, there has been no evidence of that so far. Says a senior British diplomat: "No one is winning, and short...
...They are split into half a dozen major factions. The mujahedin have been unable to unite under a joint commander, and sometimes they battle each other. "If the six groups could get together, they just might force the Soviets to rethink staying on in Afghanistan," says a senior Western diplomat in Islamabad. "But their infighting inevitably encourages the Soviets to hang...
...supply needed spare parts and machinery for the modernization of these factories, and for the construction of new ones, which are urgently needed. Relaxation of border tensions, which now tie up more than 1 million Chinese troops, could also help cut China's military expenditures. Says a U.S. diplomat in Washington: "The Chinese basically want some leverage over the Soviets, some diplomatic advantage, and they want economic aid. They're not expecting miracles...
Fiallos' remarks echo those of many other critics, but they were particularly stinging to the Sandinistas because the diplomat was for several years a loyal revolutionary. A deeply religious man with close personal ties to Obando y Bravo, he secretly joined the Sandinista National Liberation Front in 1978, when the movement was still an armed underground force. During the anti-Somoza insurrection, he secretly stored and transported arms for the guerrillas' organized clandestine rebel meetings. Washington has authorized Fiallos, who has not yet decided whether to return to Nicaragua, to stay in the U.S. indefinitely. Said he last...
Kennan, now 78, will probably be best remembered by future historians for the 1946 cable he wrote while a diplomat in Moscow, urging that the U.S. dedicate itself to the containment of Soviet expansionism. He published a version of the cable in Foreign Affairs under the pseudonym "X." He has spent much of his life since then criticizing the way in which eight successive Presidents have followed his advice. Significantly, he has not included that famous Long Telegram in this collection of past writings. Instead, he reprints a 1950 memorandum to Dean Acheson warning against putting much faith in nuclear...