Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...next February, at which time he will probably retire. The long-ailing party chief remained fairly active throughout the week, though he left President Kekkonen's formal dinner on the first night after less than an hour. "Why does he do such things?" asked a slightly amused British diplomat. "He must know what everyone will say." The Soviets claimed that Brezhnev had simply left early so he could work on his speech...
...American soldiers and their families in the town of Kirschgoens. Then, during a two-day journey to Poland, the President was greeted by a cheerful though not tumultuous crowd of 250,000 in Warsaw ("American VIPS are no big deal here any more," noted a U.S. diplomat). The following day he visited Auschwitz, the Nazi concentration camp where 4 million people were put to death during World War II. The grim-faced President placed a wreath of red and white flowers at a memorial honoring the dead of 19 nationalities...
...nation's sake, respect the political feelings of the majority of Portuguese. To do this, Soares would have to define and present a realistic economic and social program and have the courage to mobilize the mass of nonradical Portuguese in support of it. Says one hopeful European diplomat in Lisbon: "As the economy slides and as the regime's lack of authority becomes more evident, the moment could arrive." If and when it does come, it could be the only chance that Portugal's revolution has of accomplishing something other than merely exchanging one dictatorship for another...
These thoughts were idealistic but politically naive. Limited both in knowledge and experience, they lacked the perspective to weigh the radical theories they absorbed. "The men of the M.F.A. view the world through a narrow spectrum of revolutionary struggle," notes a veteran Western diplomat in Lisbon. "Many of them are very emotional. It is not uncommon to see tears form as they talk about excesses of the great landholding families...
...Rivers. In the last stages of negotiations, the diplomats worked 18-hour days against a deadline of July 18, finally winding up the bulk of their business at 2:40 a.m. Saturday, July 19. The last hitch was over the description of détente, which the Soviets wanted to call "irreversible." The final wording was "to promote the course of détente"-a riverine allusion that prompted a French diplomat to observe, "There are some pretty dry rivers in Europe." Another problem during the closing days of the negotiations was posed by Malta's Socialist Premier...