Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rare show of unanimity, 21 Foreign Ministers of the Arab League last week adopted in Cairo what one Western diplomat called "the last hurrah for the moderates." He meant an eight-point working paper that Arab delegates will discuss at the U.N. as the basis for further resolutions. The paper states that a "just and durable peace in the Middle East" depends on the fulfillment of two basic principles: 1) Israel must withdraw from Arab territories occupied during the 1967 war, including East Jerusalem, and 2) the Palestinians have a right to return to their place of origin, to self...
...month-long mission to the U.S. in early June. Working closely with the Israeli embassy in Washington, Katz met with National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, Congressmen and journalists, then traveled to New York and Chicago to confer with Jewish lay and religious leaders and more journalists. Says an Israeli diplomat who helped to arrange the trip: "He succeeded in dispelling the image of Begin as a wild...
...tried to be moderate and dependable," says the young American diplomat-narrator of Paul Theroux's latest fiction, "for the fact is that colorful characters-almost unbearable in the flesh -are colorful only in retrospect." For ten years now the productive Theroux has been transforming the unbearable flesh encountered during his wide travels into pleasurable pages. His eight novels include Girls at Play, Jungle Lovers and Saint Jack, whose settings and atmospheres were drawn from the author's years as a Peace Corpsman in Africa and a teacher in Malaysia...
...that he is out of the diplomatic game, Henry Kissinger likes being on the sidelines of a different match. The former Secretary of State and his son David, 16, a prep-school student in New England, were in the record crowd of 77,691 watching the New York Cosmos rip the Fort Lauderdale Strikers, 8-3, last week in East Rutherford, N.J. An ardent soccer enthusiast since his boyhood in Germany, Kissinger later chatted in German with Cosmos Stars Franz Beckenbauer and Werner Roth as the players relaxed in the whirlpool. He also shook the hand of the mighty Pele...
...Sudan. Libya, in the meantime, is sending military aid to Ethiopia-the only Arab state to do so. All in all, the situation is so complex and unstable that it has become difficult to tell who is doing what to whom without a score card. Says a Western diplomat in Moscow: "The Horn of Africa is the new battlefield between the big powers-and the little ones as well...