Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Latin Americans, Europeans, Africans and North Americans in politics and terror. But most contacts are not for the purpose of training and underground activity. Often, says one intelligence expert in Europe, they merely "get together from time to time over a joint to swap experiences and ideas." A diplomat in Beirut who has been keeping watch on international guerrillas there estimates that they number no more than 200 altogether and that "the links are more of a romantic nature than anything else...
...gossip in the streets ("What Central Committee member's son is having an affair with a noted poetess?"). There is a sense of the possible and a desire for accomplishment, for matching the West. "There has been progress here in the past two years," says a Western diplomat, "but there is a long way to go." Coming back to Moscow, one senses the long-stalled process of progress finally speeding...
Richard C. Gerstenberg, LL.D., board chairman and chief executive of General Motors Corp. Proof in his own time that opportunities in the American economic system are unlimited for the person with ability, integrity and a willingness to use his talents to the utmost. George F. Kennan, LL.D., diplomat...
Algerians from rural villages are flocking to the cities, where few can find jobs. Roughly 40% of the work force is unemployed, and countless thousands of young men spend their time playing dominoes and drinking beer in murky cafes off the Didouche Mourad, Algiers' principal thoroughfare. One diplomat described them as "hooligans in the making" and suggested that the government ought to be worried. So far there are no signs of incipient revolt, and Correspondent Scott found the atmosphere in Algiers one of phlegmatic indolence rather than seething resentment. Graffiti are rare in a secret-police state...
Secretary General Strong proved to be a masterly diplomat in dealing with such difficulties. Traveling constantly, the self-made millionaire (he once headed the huge holding company Power Corp. of Canada) convinced the wealthy nations that "the environment is indivisible" and is not the exclusive concern of the rich. With the poor, he argued that they had different kinds of problems: overcrowded cities, polluted water, and exhausted farm lands. So far, more than 100 U.N. members-including China-have agreed to attend the conference, with about 80 of them contributing reports on their own environmental efforts...