Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...position to observe the haul monde of his time. Though he also wrote political diaries, art books and fiction (his The Castle of Otranto is the prototype of the gothic novel), Walpole wielded his pen effectively and entertainingly in writing letters to such friends as Poet Thomas Gray and Diplomat Sir Horace Mann. Sensing his correspondence's value to posterity, the bachelor author once said: "Nothing gives so just an idea of an age as genuine letters. History waits for its last seal from them...
...visited wounded soldiers in Cairo's hospitals and donated blood to the Red Crescent, the Moslem equivalent of the Red Cross. After listening to a broadcast in which Israel claimed to have knocked out 800 Syrian tanks while the Syrians claimed only 25 Israeli tanks, an Arab diplomat remarked: "You see how the Israelis exaggerate? Our side is cool and realistic, while they make all those ridiculous claims." Said a Beirut businessman: "This week, if I happened to be traveling through Europe, I wouldn't be ashamed of telling people I am an Arab...
...Austrian oversight, however, was that neither Kreisky nor others who favored closing Schönau fully recognized the symbolism involved. Said an Austrian diplomat: "We did not realize the emotional importance of Schönau for Israel and therefore for the Arabs...
...reputation of being Austria's most astute politician. Despite his background as the son of a wealthy industrialist, Kreisky joined the socialist movement at age 15. After the Nazis annexed Austria in 1938, he fled to Sweden. Thirteen years passed before he returned home. First as a diplomat and then as Foreign Minister (1959-66), Kreisky deftly helped steer Austria on the course of political neutrality...
...General César Mendoza Durán, 54, is head of the paramilitary carabineros. A top horseman who competed in the 1952 Helsinki Olympics, Mendoza has been noticeably milder in his condemnation of leftists than his fellow junta members. Explains a foreign diplomat: "Mendoza knows that when the army gets tired of guarding itself and goes back to its barracks, his people will have to keep order...