Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...addition to these acts, Carlos is believed to have had a part in the bombing of the Drugstore in Paris and an attack on the French embassy in The Hague, both in September 1974, and the attempted murders of a prominent Jewish merchant in London and a Yugoslav diplomat in Lyon. From various papers found in Carlos' hideouts, police discovered other as yet unhatched plots: a scheme to block the Suez Canal by dynamiting a ship, the kidnap or murder of the Israeli Ambassador to France and the possible assassination of Saudi Arabia's oil minister, Sheik Ahmed...
...accelerating pace of antitrust action in Europe. Though empowered by the EEC's founding Treaty of Rome to prevent "distortion or restriction of competition," the Brussels-based Competition Department at first did little to break up Europe's traditionally cozy relationships between competitors. But since Luxembourg Diplomat Albert Borschette took over as antitrust chief in 1970, the EEC has become far more aggressive. Says Borschette: "I think it would be better for us to have three or four medium-sized companies in real competition [in each major market] than to have one big company for the whole Common...
...Colony. Such is the prickly mood in Ottawa that the government spied insult where none, clearly, was intended. Responding to questions in Parliament, Trudeau said that he was "surprised that an experienced diplomat like Mr. Porter would not find other channels for expressing [his] views." After Trudeau brought down the House by declaring "we are not a colony of the U.S.," New Democratic Party Leader Ed Broadbent proposed that the Prime Minister advise Washington that Porter's "kind of behavior is totally unacceptable to Canada...
...nominated as the 1960 Democratic presidential candidate caught him climbing over a backyard fence near his suburban Los Angeles hideaway. Kennedy shouted that he was going off "to meet my father." Reporters have since learned that the stealthy visit was more likely to the nearby home of a former diplomat's wife he had known for some time...
Marisa's father was the late Robert L. Berenson, a proper Bostonian and career diplomat. Her granduncle was the art historian Bernard Berenson. Her mother Gogo, now the Marchesa Cacciapuoti di Giuliano, was the daughter of Elsa Schiaparelli, the Parisian designer who introduced colors like shocking pink to the sober world of 1930s haute couture...