Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Senate on an anti-bombing measure has been postponed until after Memorial Day. Thus Kissinger was spared the embarrassment of trying to talk tough from a substantially weakened position. His options in pressuring Tho to adhere to the peace accords, however, could soon be severely limited. As a diplomat in Paris observed last week, "Kissinger could use the carrot-and-stick technique-alternating the threat of more bombing with the prospect of American economic aid for the reconstruction of North Viet Nam. But now it looks as though Congress may withhold the carrot and take away the stick...
...remarked David K.E. Bruce as he crossed from Hong Kong into China last week, a "very intriguing" assignment. That said, the 75-year-old veteran diplomat, who had previously served as ambassador to Paris, London and Bonn, flew on to Peking from Canton in a Chinese Trident jet to begin his new chores as chief of the U.S. Liaison Office to the People's Republic of China. There, for the first time since Nixon's visit, an American flag was raised, signaling the official establishment of formal relations between the U.S. and China after a lapse...
...leaders share some traits; both are big-boned, powerfully featured and capable of talking far into the night. "It is easier for Brandt to talk to Brezhnev than to Nixon," says one experienced Western diplomat. "There is a quality of openness in Brezhnev that Brandt enjoys and shares. Nixon is a more difficult, inward person...
...Matak, remained conspicuously absent. "Perhaps he is a bit ill," suggested one Cambodian official. "Perhaps he does not like to celebrate May Day, which has Communist connotations," speculated another. Whatever the reason, it was not an encouraging sign. When asked to describe the alliances within the council, one Western diplomat replied tartly: "One, two, three, four-all against each other...
...titular leadership of deposed Prince Sihanouk, who is strongly backed by both Hanoi and Peking. Although Communist elements among the insurgents have little use for Sihanouk, there was a possibility that they might try to use his popularity with the peasantry to broaden their own movement. One Eastern European diplomat in Phnom-Penh suggested half seriously that in the end, Cambodia could well become "the first socialist constitutional monarchy...