Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fate. A measure of the puzzlement in the diplomatic community was provided by a Soviet diplomat in the U.S. Asked by a reporter about the goings on in China, he countered anxiously: "If you hear anything, you'll let me know...
...difference, says a Japanese diplomat, is that "in Japan when you love a girl, there is an expression: 'Eyes talk.' But in your country when you love a girl, you must shout 'I love you, I love you, I love you!' " Up to now, the Japanese have learned neither how to shout nor how to react when others are doing the shouting. The result is a sense of gnawing unease for an emerging superpower that has yet to establish its identity...
...Soviet news agency Tass attacked the British action as "a relapse into the cold war," and Soviet diplomats in London were clearly stunned. The Daily Express quoted Soviet Labor Attaché Igor Kleminov as protesting: "This just can't be. I am a friend of Vic Feather's [head of the Trades Union Congress]. I was drinking whisky with him at lunchtime." Edouard Ustenko, a second secretary, was equally surprised. "Impossible," he said. "There will be nobody left." Embassy Counselor Yuri Kashlev told the newspaper: "I have just come from Manchester, a welcome by the Lord Mayor...
...thirds vote of the 127-member Assembly rather than a simple majority. But it is having great difficulty lining up support for this position, despite such efforts as U.N. Ambassador George Bush's meeting last week with U.N. envoys from 35 member states. As a British diplomat explained, "We don't question U.S. intentions on this matter, but the practical effect of the U.S. resolution would be to keep Peking out because Peking will not come in while Taiwan is here. We regret that Taiwan would have to be expelled, but China's presence here is more...
...addition to the extreme nationalists, Lynch must also contend with the reasoned criticism of such political opponents as Conor Cruise O'Brien, the scholar and diplomat who is now a Labor Party M.P. in Dublin. Last week O'Brien published in the Irish Times an eloquent open letter to New York Lawyer-Politician Paul O'Dwyer, urging him not to campaign for the I.R.A. in the U.S. Wrote O'Brien: "Don't believe the I.R.A. if they tell you the Irish people are behind them. I was elected with mainly a working-class vote...