Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...within Russian territorial waters. As a result of that story, U.S. officials say, the Kremlin stopped Holystone by planting some underwater mines and erecting jamming and shielding devices around the targets. The Times report infuriated U.S. intelligence officials-"mischievous" was about the kindest description of it. One baffled Soviet diplomat shook his head over a Bloody Mary in Washington and commented that the relationship between the American press and the American Government was "anarchy." Jokes Cline: "The only unrestricted intelligence organization in this country is the American press...
...fact, as Washington officials took pains to point out, the document that Ford will be signing is not a treaty with the force of law; rather it is, in the words of one diplomat, a "declaration of good intentions." As such, it is a token of detente, which, with all its dangers, probably remains the world's best hope for avoiding nuclear war. The declaration also is a symbol of the fact that while strong enmity between Communist and Western systems remains, the cold war tensions that beset Europe for a generation have continued to abate...
...zone of control and influence. But for Western Europe as well as such Communist nations as Rumania, Poland, Yugoslavia and Hungary, it is a dynamic document, a charter for continuing and expanding contacts between West and East. The provisions for a 1977 follow-up are, according to one Rumanian diplomat, "a lifeline...
Ominous Precedent. At week's end the big unanswered question was whether Egypt would go ahead with its threat and demand the removal of the U.N. troops in the Sinai. The whole problem of ending the mandate, as one Israeli diplomat in Jerusalem put it, is "a plate of legal spaghetti." Legally, the U.N. Security Council supervises both the peace-keeping forces in the Sinai and the observers on the Golan Heights, and last week Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim began summoning Council members to discuss how the mandate could be kept alive. Practically speaking, however, the U.N. troops could...
...later. Soon it was show time again; as the lights and TV cameras clicked on for a joint press conference, the crews answered questions relayed from newsmen in Houston and Moscow. Leonov, fielding a question about the relative merits of Soviet and American space food, proved himself a deft diplomat. Said he: "It is not what you eat but with whom you eat that is important...