Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...snap press conference, he stressed that because the talks will continue in May, it cannot be said they have collapsed. Carter also argued that the Soviets refused to accept the American package because they "simply need more time" to consider it. A senior British diplomat in London agrees: "It would have been most unusual for the Soviets to react positively the first time the Carter people put their proposals on the table." But did the Russians have to react so negatively? Why, moreover, did they not ask for more time to study the U.S. options? To these questions, Administration spokesmen...
...Mobutu is a survivor," says one Western diplomat in Kinshasa. "He may pull it off as he has in the past. But things look bad." If Mobutu fails to control the insurgency in Shaba, he will likely face rebellion from dissatisfied factions elsewhere in the country. Although the U.S., Belgium and France have airlifted supplies to Zaïre, it is unlikely that any of Mobutu's traditional allies would try to mount a rescue operation. One reason: his crumbling, corruption-riddled army seems unable to repel the invaders...
...Samuel Lewis, 46, to Israel. Though a professional diplomat, he too is a surprise, since he has had little experience in the Middle East. ("Maybe that's his biggest advantage," quips a senior State Department official.) Lewis, a Texan who joined the Foreign Service in 1954, served in Brazil during the '60s and later became Latin American specialist for the National Security Council. Most recently, he has been deputy director of State's Office of Policy Planning and assistant secretary for International Organization Affairs...
...take advantage of the vacuum of big-power influence on the continent. The message: Moscow, not Peking, is the true friend of the developing world. With Anglo-American efforts to help negotiate a settlement in Rhodesia at a standstill, the visit took on added meaning. Said a Western diplomat in Moscow: "The Soviets want to be around when things move in Rhodesia and South Africa, and they want to be on the side of the key 'frontline' states [Mozambique, Zambia, Tanzania] when the showdown comes with South Africa...
...policy. I believe the American people expect me to speak frankly about the policies we intend to pursue." Some of the havoc created by this approach is simply the result of the new Administration's not having had time to explain and demonstrate its policies. Notes a Western diplomat in Moscow: "We're all certainly in the learning process...