Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cambodia, the refugee problem is less severe because the war there is scarcely a year old. The population of Phnom-Penh, the capital, has grown by 400,000, but the city has absorbed them gracefully. "The refugee problem hasn't surfaced yet," says a Western diplomat. "Give it another year." Moreover, since far less land is owned by absentee landlords than in Viet Nam, the average Cambodian peasant is less apt to leave it in moments of stress, and more anxious to return to it when the fighting eases. Cambodia's most serious refugee problem has been...
Another group of Soviet proteges who recently made news were the Turkish students involved in the kidnaping of four U.S. airmen two months ago. The students, it turned out, had received training from Soviet instructors in Syria. The Soviet "diplomat" who had overseen their activities in Turkey was subsequently transferred to-of all places-Ceylon...
...American table tennis team jetted home from China last week, their trip was still causing reverberations among U.S. adversaries and allies alike. A somewhat shaken Soviet diplomat offered TIME a dyspeptic view of the whole affair: "Mao invites a bunch of your Ping Pong players, and Chou offers them lemonade, rice cookies and a free trip to the Chinese wall. Mao could not have made a better public relations move even if he had denounced his own sayings and told the world he was Mr. Henry Ford's secret business partner. This is not foreign policy. It just shows...
...against the 50,000 Communist troops in Cambodia, and it is slowly losing ground in its struggle against inflation and other symptoms of war. Lately, stories of indolence and corruption in the Cabinet have been circulating in the capital. Crisis or no, it was, as one Western diplomat put it, "a good time to change the government...
Government officials continued to deny that Duvalier was near death. For years he has been plagued by diabetes and chronic heart trouble. A few months ago, Duvalier passed out in the midst of a private audience with a Western diplomat...