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...three weeks was being reappraised. Military analysts noted that neither side had yet committed all its weaponry and military resources. The bellicosity of both antagonists, along with an absence of common negotiating ground, now suggested that the war could drag on for months. Said a senior British diplomat: "Iraq can't bring Iran to its knees, and Iran won't negotiate under duress. That's the dilemma...
...installed as Moscow's puppet last December. The sheer number of senior Soviet Politburo members participating in the Moscow welcome demonstrated the Kremlin's obvious desire to shore up Karmal's legitimacy and make a show of his supposed influence with the Kremlin. Mused a Western diplomat who observed the arrival: "There were more bear hugs than at a circus...
Barros, a career diplomat, will present a political and economic update" on the current situation in Chile, Paul W. Garber '56, the Chilean consul in Boston, said yesterday...
Meanwhile, a Soviet diplomat called at the Foreign Office in Tokyo and claimed for Moscow whatever treasure was found; his stand was backed by Kyushu University's Hideo Takabayashi, a professor of international law. Abandoned warships, said Takabayashi, unlike abandoned merchantmen, continue to belong to the governments whose flag they once flew. Not so, said the Japanese Foreign Office. The find, it held, belonged to neither the Soviet nor the Japanese government...
...talked into changing. There must be boycotts of all dealings with it." In order to persuade the U.S. and other Western nations to cut their trade ties with South Africa, Shagari warns, "I cannot rule out using our oil or anything else." Washington gets the point. Says one U.S. diplomat: "If they ever thought we were backing off from our commitment to majority rule, I have no doubt that Nigeria would cut off oil shipments...