Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gaulle said Malraux never won the Nobel Prize for Literature because "he is catalogued as a Gaullist, and a Gaullist can't have the prize because it is given practically with the approval of the Americans." The diplomat-poet Saint-John Perse, "who has always been against me," won his Nobel "precisely because of that. The judges didn't even read him, and in any case wouldn't have understood anything in his poetry...
...contacts in recent days have amounted only to mortar and rocket exchanges. What fighting has occurred has been limited to the Chuong Thien province in the Mekong Delta and Kontum in the Central Highlands. In the northerly I Corps area, virtually no combat has been reported. Said a Western diplomat: "The combat statistics show that incidents are only a fifth of what they were after the January ceasefire. There is a far lower threshold of violence...
...possible into the Soviet economy. Under his leadership, the Soviet Union has stopped trying to catch up with the U.S. economically through its own efforts. Instead, it seeks to achieve "peace and prosperity" by harnessing Western technological and industrial know-how to the Soviet chariot. As one European diplomat...
...Athens, the atmosphere was uneasily calm. For the present, at least, Strongman George Papadopoulos has won out. Said one Western diplomat: "Once the colonels got through the first 24 hours, they were home free." If the mutiny had spread throughout the armed forces, the regime would have been in dire straits...
Mary I. Bunting, past president of Radcliffe, and George W. Ball, a high-ranking diplomat under Presidents John F. Kennedy '40 and Lyndon B. Johnson who voiced objections to the Vietnam War, headed a list of 12 honorary degree recipients at today's 322nd Commencement Exercises in Tercentenary Theater...