Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...moment at least, a division within the Revolutionary Council. As Boumedienne lay dying, Colonel Mohammed Salah Yahiaoui began lining up support by asserting that he would be a rigid guardian of Boumedienne's highly centralized, Islamic, socialist policies. Another faction coalesced behind Foreign Minister Abdelaziz Bouteflika, a cosmopolitan diplomat who is said to favor strengthening the economy and improving ties with the West...
Many Italians fear that calling elections would set the scene for even more terrorism. "This is a period when this country cannot afford to be without political leadership," said a Western diplomat in Rome last week. "The vacuum and confusion created by an electoral campaign could be extremely dangerous.' Predicted Socialist Leader Bettino Craxi: "Early elections would be a concession to the Red Brigades, who want destabilization and chaos in this country...
American-made Kent cigarettes, in their familiar white package, have become a form of alternative currency in President Nicolae Ceauşescu's Socialist Republic. Diplomats and foreign visitors use them as tips or to consummate business as well as sexual deals. Nor do the cigarettes immediately go up in smoke. Instead, they are traded back and forth by Rumanians, who prize them as a luxury item. The street price is three times the $1.10 cost per pack in the special dollar shops run for foreigners. "It's a startling feature of life here," says one Western diplomat...
Kents' purchasing power is high. One diplomat gets excellent refuse removal service for a year by tipping the garbageman with Kents. When a resident foreigner's Rumanian maid asked her employer for a few packs of Kents, she explained that her daughter was preparing to take college entrance exams; the cigarettes might serve to temper the severity of the examiner...
...trip created relatively little stir back in the People's Republic. The telecasts reached only a comparatively small portion of the population (700,000 TV sets for 1 billion people), yet they did have some impact, particularly in Peking. "Walking down the street," noted an American diplomat serving there, "I heard a number of people saying 'Jimmiiee Cahter,' which is their way of pronouncing the President's name...