Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...used its driver's seat as his throne. He loved to show bug-eyed visitors the royal treasury: two rusty biscuit tins filled with diamonds. A crafty giant of a man who stood 6 ft. 6 in. and weighed 300 Ibs., the Matabele king was a skillful diplomat with a well-trained army constantly patrolling for trespassers. He had successfully parried the white man's advances for nearly 20 years...
...bluff, demanded proof of any CIA backing for the strongly nationalist newspapers that the army has allowed to publish. After a bugle-blowing mob of 3,000 Moslem youths demonstrated in front of the Foreign Ministry, Subandrio backed down. "I wish to correct my speech," the once cocky diplomat allowed. Headlined an army daily: SUBANDRIO REFUTES HIMSELF...
...20th century's two world wars, however, helped shift international politics to a global arena, and the emergence since of dozens of independent powers in Asia and Africa has completed the process. French is still popular within the purlieus staked out by France's masterful 17th century diplomat, Cardinal Richelieu; it is used in Common Market areas * and is popular among Eastern European emissaries...
...brilliant Mexican poet, essayist, playwright and diplomat Octavio Paz has shown how his country's revolution and governmental intervention in economic life led to eventual diversified development. And as British Economist Dudley Seers et al, have put it in Cuba: The Economic and Social Revolution: "Almost any degree of disorganization would have been preferable to the complete failure in Cuba in earlier years to mobilize the factors of production...
...view of many, this far-flung organization works admirably. A top diplomat at Paris' Quai d'Orsay says: "The State Department functions better than the Quai. It is a well-oiled machine. The right things go to the right places." U.S. consulates are widely praised for courtesy and efficiency. "If you want to know what's going on anywhere in Africa, ask at the American embassy," says a veteran European newsman who covers that continent. The American Legion, once prone to find State "soft on Communism," last year investigated and concluded that "the nation can place much...