Word: diplomatic
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...start, the six Common Market countries (France, West Germany, Italy and Benelux) last July set up a committee under French Diplomat Christian Fouchet to suggest a plan for a politically unified Europe to move parallel with the growing economic community...
Finally, the problem child ran away with a "flashily dressed, middleaged" Middle Eastern diplomat. Two and a half years later. Komsomolskaya Pravda reported, a pathetic figure stood begging forgiveness on her father's doorstep. How she had paid for her folly! Her husband, it turned out, already had one wife, and Svetlana had been little more than a brutalized, half-starved harem slave, forced to wait on wife No. 1 and her three children. This, said Komsomolskaya Pravda, was the awful fate awaiting those "frivolous girls who consider they are born only for amusement and recklessly chase after foreign...
Kremlin that the West must not ignore and may be able to exploit. Khrushchev may in fact be preferable, says one Western diplomat, "as the devil I know to the devil I don't know." But any concessions to him, in the most realistic Western view, should be made not "to help him stay in power" but only if they are clearly in the Western interest as well...
...Khrushchev had been the target of an assassination attempt. After a Kremlin spokesman denounced the story as a "provocative lie," L'Unità tried to pin the rumor on Western newsmen. Khrushchev, meanwhile, was relaxing at his Black Sea villa near Sochi and joked with a visiting Brazilian diplomat about the reported attempt on his life...
...later served for a spell in the Syrian army, returned to Jordan to become a civil servant. In the tax department. Wasfi Tal is remembered with awe for trying to make rich Jordanians pay their taxes. In the last ten years he has served, intermittently, as a Jordanian diplomat all over the Middle East, and adversaries loudly claim that he fomented anti-government plots in Syria. Lebanon and Iraq...