Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Speaking in Prague, he accused NATO of accelerating the arms race. There may have been an element of grand standing in his statements, but they nonetheless signified that the Soviets were in no mood to budge on the issues that divide East and West. Said a veteran Western diplomat in Moscow: "It's the worst I've seen in a long time. They're not backing down an inch...
While the Western leaders easily reached agreement on the defense program, they sidestepped another serious problem: the hostility between NATO members Greece and Turkey over Cyprus. One senior diplomat called the schism "a serious menace to NATO'S eastern flank, perhaps even to the alliance's future. It is a terrible wound." Making it even worse, in NATO'S eyes, is Congress's 1974 embargo on U.S. arms shipments to Turkey, which used weapons provided by the U.S. in Cyprus...
...troops out of Zaïre and replacing them with Moroccans as the first units of a peace-keeping command. But unless the legionnaires are replaced by a force more stable than Mobutu's army, many of the 12,000 Europeans still in Shaba may well leave. Said a Western diplomat in Lubumbashi: "The expatriates are sitting on their luggage. They do not believe the Zaïrian forces are capable of controlling the situation. If the European troops go, they...
Cuban Premier Fidel Castro insisted to the ranking American diplomat in Havana, Lyle Lane, that no Cubans had participated in the Shaba raid. In fact, said Castro, Cuban advisers had learned of the raid beforehand and tried to talk the Katangese out of going through with it. Washington officials could not prove Castro wrong and were not quite sure how to interpret his words. In any case, there was no doubt that over the years, the Cubans and the Angolans had armed and trained the Katangese and were therefore implicated in the mischiefmaking...
...kneecapping" (the technique developed by the I.R. A. in Ireland of shooting at the legs) of an Italian executive of the Milan branch of Chemical Bank of New York. The violence has caused some members of the international business community to think seriously about security. Said one Western diplomat in Rome: "I know more than one executive who's been doing some target practice with a newly bought pistol...