Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...diplomat may be only a cookie pusher, but the kind of cookies pushed by Indonesia's charge d'affaires in Copenhagen tumbled, not crumbled. Last week Danish police announced that Gustin Santawirja not only ran his country's embassy, until he returned home last August, but was also a procurer on the side...
...Dean Rusk, the dogged Scot won U.S. acceptance of Britain's cautious condition that "participation as an observer is not a commitment." U.S. officials are hopeful nonetheless that when the time comes to sign the treaty establishing MLF, Britannia will want to join. "After all," hinted a British diplomat last week, "we hardly need to sit in on the talks just to find out what it's all about...
...Thaw? Diplomats ride roughshod over Bonn's traffic laws. The city's narrow, choked streets-many dating from medieval times-allow little room for maneuvering, but cars with "O" plates (indicating the diplomatic corps) swing arrogantly into "no parking" zones and further complicate the traffic problem. Police rarely ticket diplomatic drivers, knowing that they will use their immunity to avoid answering the summons. When a British correspondent had the bumper ripped off his car by a speeding Ivory Coast diplomat passing on the wrong side, the police waved on the African at the flash of his passport...
...Scholar-Diplomat...
...increasingly influential advocate of economic revision is Carlos Rafael Rodríguez, 50, goateed, urbane boss of the National Institute of Agrarian Reform. He is a longtime Communist in a land where, as an experienced Western diplomat puts it, "instinctively the old Communists follow the Moscow line, the new Communists the Peking line." Says Rodríguez: "First we must satisfy our population. If we must reduce the tempo of our industrial development in order to produce consumer goods, then we must...