Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Seldom has the Sino-Soviet dispute been so heated. Believing that detente has made the Soviets stronger, Peking has heaped vitriol and ridicule on any move to lessen East-West tension. Kissinger's concern for detente has affected his standing with the Chinese. "To Peking," says a Western diplomat, "Kissinger is soft on the Soviets. Détente involves an element of trust the Chinese feel is excessive." Beyond that, Premier Chou Enlai, who collaborated with the Secretary on the Sino-American rapprochement in 1971, suffers from heart disease. Chou, 77, has not been seen in public for more...
Expressing a sentiment that ought to be valid for all European states, an East bloc diplomat last week observed...
...that control is once again in question-and it is the Basques who have done most to bring it about. "For the first time since I got here, people are openly and seriously comparing this to the pre-Civil War situation in 1936," said one diplomat in Bilbao, the Basque country's thriving commercial center (shipbuilding, banking, chemicals, paper, furniture). Adds an official of the conservative Basque Nationalist Party...
...even that is not certain. Says a Western diplomat of Saraiva de Carvalho: "He wants to run with the hare and ride with the hounds." As COPCON chief...
...American. Brooklyn-born Jennie had already caught the Prince of Wales' cruising eye. As Randolph reached for political power, the Prince-and other men-reached for Jennie. Yet when it became apparent that Randolph had contracted syphilis, the prodigious Jen nie abandoned her great love (an Austrian diplomat) to take her mad hus band round the world. She outlived him by 26 love-filled years and married not one but two men as young as her son Winston. When she was dying in great pain, she stopped to wonder: "Is this punishment for living life the way I wanted...