Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...talks throughout the week with Costa Gomes, the chiefs of staff and members of the all-military Revolutionary Council, Gonçalves had exerted every effort to survive. "They may have to march Gonçalves out at the end of a barrel of a gun," said one Western diplomat. "But the alternative would be an uprising in the countryside." In fact, violence continued to erupt in northern and central Portugal, where mobs have wrecked some 50 Communist Party headquarters this summer. When a power failure cut off electricity throughout the country for a day, there were widespread fears that...
...Bangladesh had its massacre," said a senior Western diplomat in Dacca, the capital, last week. "It still awaits its coup." The bloody upheaval that ended the government, and the life, of Sheik Mujibur Rahman two weeks ago (TIME, Aug. 25) was the work of about a dozen young officers (most of them majors). According to the same diplomat, "They are too powerful to be arrested but not powerful enough to run the country...
Apparently, the officers who overthrew Mujib timed their coup for Aug. 15, the anniversary of Indian independence. They figured that the New Delhi government would be preoccupied that day-"a sort of Yom Kippur War situation," as a Western diplomat put it. The coup was over so quickly that New Delhi had no time to respond militarily. Later, however, when New Delhi warned that it could not "remain unaffected by these political developments in a neighboring country," the new rulers of Bangladesh appealed to India for "friendship and cooperation...
High marks must go to U.S. Ambassador to Cairo Hermann Eilts. A slight, crewcut, Arabic-speaking diplomat, Eilts has developed a close working relationship with Egypt's President Sadat and his Foreign Minister, Ismail Fahmy. Though he has a profound dislike of airplanes-he once drove two days from Aswan to Cairo just to avoid the one-hour flight-Eilts nonetheless made seven intercontinental trips between April 2 and last week, carrying messages between Sadat and Kissinger...
...famous moderate manifesto attacking the ruling troika for dragging Portugal toward a Communist dictatorship. Their leader and the author of the manifesto, former Foreign Minister Ernesto Melo Antunes, was reported to be spending each night in a different place to avoid, in the words of one Western diplomat, "getting snagged by some freelance left-wingers...