Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...accord, although even small details in dispute could stall any agreement. But with two weeks remaining before the expiration of the latest mandate for United Nations peacekeeping troops in Sinai, there was still time for additional "clarification"-or for more hands to be played in what one Israeli diplomat called "a giant poker game with stupendous stakes...
Moreover, the danger keeps mounting. At the Geneva meeting, British Diplomat David Ennals pointed out that in 1970 there were 101 known nuclear power reactors in the world; by 1978 the total will have risen to at least 329, all of them producing as a byproduct deadly plutonium, which can substitute for uranium in making atomic weapons...
...groups until the country had calmed down, but his proposal fell on deaf ears. So far the underlying issues -which cut to the heart of Lebanon's sectarian distrust between Christians and Moslems-have proved to be insoluble. "The difficulty in resolving the political crisis," observed a Western diplomat, "has hindered the resolution of the security crisis." At one point Karami threatened to give up his efforts to form a government, but by week's end had been persuaded by his colleagues to keep trying...
...government or an outright proletarian dictatorship run by workers' commissions and neighborhood committees. President Francisco da Costa Gomes, fresh from a bridge-building visit to Rumania, went into extraordinary, round-the-clock sessions with the 29-member Revolutionary Council, the government's highest authority. Said a Western diplomat in Lisbon: "This is the most critical point of the revolution...
Died. Durga Prasad Dhar, 57, Indian diplomat and Ambassador to Moscow, who negotiated New Delhi's 1971 nonaggression pact with the Soviet Union and was a principal architect of India's military intervention in neighboring East Pakistan's civil war, which led to the creation of independent Bangladesh; following a heart attack; in New Delhi...