Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With the self-assurance of an imperial proconsul, Syrian Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam last week presided over a cease-fire in Lebanon that Damascus had not merely proposed but had imposed. At Beirut's presidential palace, the amiable diplomat-many Lebanese have already begun calling him the "Kissinger of the Arab world"-received one delegation after another from Lebanon's rival political and confessional factions. Meanwhile, a team of Syrian, Palestinian and Lebanese officers monitored the cease-fire-the 23rd in the nine-month-old civil war-and managed to restore a measure of relative calm...
...seven CIA agents in Rome. Just two weeks ago, the newsweekly Cambio 16, one of Spain's leading magazines, fingered seven CIA agents in the American embassy in Madrid. Washington fears that CIA operatives in West Germany will be uncovered next. It has reached the point, a U.S. diplomat at the Paris Embassy sarcastically suggests, where the CIA and the U.S. Information Service swap offices, since "it's the CIA that seems to be generating all the publicity nowadays...
...almost never, Moynihan does not mind making a point peripatetically: he will wander into the Security Council during a debate, walk around, sit down, get up, go out and come back in. "We sometimes feel that he does not take the Security Council seriously," complains one East Asian diplomat...
Riesman is an admirer of Moynihan's all-embracing academic interests, which he says equip him as a diplomat to "deal with issues on a plane of both contemporary and historical perspective." Riesman recalls a Phi Beta Kappa address that Moynihan delivered at Harvard in which he compared student radicals of the 1960s to the Quaker, Leveler and Digger religious dissidents of Cromwell's England, and then predicted that student activism would die out in the '70s when the demographic bulge produced by the postwar baby boom subsided. Says Riesman: "There aren't many people who have enough knowledge...
...part in funding any election campaigns. The $6 million authorized by the Administration for handouts to Italian moderates is small change compared with past contributions to Italian parties by U.S. corporations, labor unions and other sources-"A bottle of Scotch at Christmas from Uncle Sam," as one diplomat put it. (It is also considerably less than the $27 million the Contmunists reportedly received from the Soviet embassy for campaign expenses in the 1972 general election.) Anti-Communist Italian politicians testily denied that any CIA contributions were-or would be-accepted. The Republican Party went so far as to cable...