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...conservatism, welcomed the change in U.S. leadership. Is Schmidt satisfied now? Well, not really. One of the reasons, paradoxically, is that Reagan is displaying some of the firmness that Carter lacked, but it is not the kind that Bonn expected. "Washington bashing is In again," a Western diplomat in Bonn lamented last week...
...would put his life on the line to prevent a robbery." Adds the slain priest's father, Franz: "They had to force their way into his bedroom to get him. If it was a simple robbery, he would not have tried to stop them." Says a foreign diplomat in Guatemala: "Nobody I know believes the government's story...
...ousting an Allen protégé, Haig has demonstrated that his sometimes shaky status in the Administration is on the rise again. His choice for Neumann's replacement: Ambassador to the Philippines Richard Murphy, 51, a career diplomat with pro-Arab sympathies similar to those of Neumann. Murphy, TIME has learned, was Haig's original choice for the Saudi Arabia post...
...when he was appointed No. 3 man at the frustrating Paris peace talks between the U.S. and North Viet Nam, where Harriman was chief negotiator. Cyrus Vance, Habib's immediate superior and later Secretary of State, recalls Habib's meticulous allnight preparations of U.S. positions. The observant diplomat once advised his American colleagues to look under the bargaining table while dealing with the impassive North Vietnamese, since "you can tell when they're unsure of themselves by the way they cross and uncross their feet...
DIED. Fernand Spaak, 57, Belgian diplomat who headed the European Community Commission's delegation to Washington from 1975 to 1980 and who hi February became chief of staff to Commission President Gaston Thorn hi Brussels; of wounds received when he was shot with a hunting rifle, apparently by his estranged wife of 28 years, Anna-Maria, who then appears to have committed suicide by electrocuting herself in the bath; in Ixelles, Belgium. The son of Paul-Henri Spaak, the former Belgian Prime Minister and Foreign Minister who played a major role in the formation of the European Community...