Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Third World countries, socialism, as one U.S. State Department analyst explains, is almost certain to remain "a blueprint." Another American diplomat, William B. Young, points out that "in many less developed countries, only the government can effectively mobilize capital. In some countries, insecure leaders fear the existence of any private activity which would conceivably have the financial resources to challenge their authority...
...five times the reader is told that Bob Haldeman is a direct, unvarnished, no-nonsense bastard who always tells it like it is. That is the Haldeman I remember. But time after time, the accounts of Watergate events in his book are couched in the vague terms of the diplomat who is walking on eggs...
...assessing the situation, a U.S. diplomat points out that "not all the results are in yet on the Soviet gamble on the Horn." For one thing, the Ethiopian regime's loyalty to Moscow has yet to be deeply tested. Mengistu is a nationalist above all, and there may be some truth in his claim that he turned to Moscow partly because the U.S. would not sell him weapons. In any case, the Soviets can hardly escape the many reminders of how quickly allegiances can change on the Horn. The Ethiopian soldiers still wear American-supplied uniforms; their weapons, ammunition...
DIED. James Bryant Conant, 84, scientist, diplomat, educational reformer and president of Harvard University for 20 years; of heart disease; in Hanover, N.H. A chemist during World War I and a professor of chemistry at Harvard for 14 years thereafter, Conant was partly responsible for the World War II decision to make an atomic bomb and to use it at Hiroshima in 1945. As president of Harvard (1933-53), the self-effacing but stubborn Conant instituted a number of improvements that changed the character of higher education: he broadened the makeup of the student body, argued for a core curriculum...
...only case I know of a bull who carries his china shop with him." That may be too brisk a dismissal. Though he operated in a sometimes heavyhanded "brinksman's" style, in his nearly eight years as Secretary of State, he became a tough and savvy diplomat who could match the Soviets in sheer implacability...