Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...White House view was that nothing very drastic was happening. A Soviet diplomat in Europe asked an American journalist last week, "Is your President getting nervous?" The answer, simply, was no. Said one of Carter's close advisers: "He's trying to avoid being too concerned about whether the detente index is up point four or down point...
...Third World on a lot of major is sues. Venezuela has influence where we have none or little." Carter listened with interest to Pérez's advocacy of a new economic deal for the Third World because "for better or for worse," as one U.S. diplomat put it, Washington recognizes Pérez as an effective spokesman...
...furniture, pictures and other objects." For the loquacious, he counsels "don't tell old stories, jokes and anecdotes"-and for the insecure, "don't be disappointed if you think you are being ignored." One dictum might be intended for KGB operatives doing cover duty in the diplomatic corps: On visits to others' homes, the diplomat "should not enter the room without knocking...
...along the road from Vientiane to Thakhek. But as Hanoi's presence grows, so does the traditional Laotian hostility to the Vietnamese. In early spring, Vietnamese troops killed 20 Pathet Lao soldiers who had tried to inspect a convoy of wood heading for Viet Nam. Observes a Western diplomat in Bangkok: "Now even the Communists in Laos are grumbling about the Big Brother Vietnamese...
...years of French rule, with only three college graduates, no industry other than a pair of soft-drink plants, no agriculture whatever and an export trade restricted to hides and skins (goats outnumber people by better than 2 to 1). "If it were anywhere else," says an Arab diplomat in Djibouti town (pop. 140,000), "nobody would care about this godforsaken place. But because it is where it is, Djibouti matters to many, from neighbors to superpowers...