Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last week for talks with President Ford, his El Al jetliner landed at New York's Kennedy Airport. Rabin then boarded a U.S. military jet for the hop between Kennedy and Andrews Air Force Base outside the capital. "Please don't call it the shuttle," an Israeli diplomat jokingly implored TIME Correspondent Strobe Talbott as Rabin disembarked at Andrews. Despite the effort at humor, the Israelis were in no mood to link Rabin's trip to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's long-playing diplomatic shuttle between Cairo and Jerusalem, which ended in a stalemate three...
...belittle this gesture," Sadat told TIME Correspondent Wilton Wynn, referring to the Israeli move. "I consider it a very important act on the part of Israel. This gesture means we start the peace process again, although let us hope it is not simply a tactical move." An Egyptian diplomat observed approvingly that "until we are ready to sign a final peace, we prefer this kind of arrangement to a negotiated, signed, bilateral document. This kind doesn't have to be defended publicly by our government or by other Arab governments...
...wake of the recent European tour, however, most European leaders feel confident that Ford, as a British diplomat put it, "is growing into his job." Schmidt indicated that he was delighted with Ford's display of real leadership. Remarked a senior Bonn official: "We now think Ford knows where he is going, even if he isn't quite sure...
...hands of DINA, which has an estimated membership of 1,000 and is responsible only to Military Strongman Augusto Pinochet Ugarte. DINA (Dirección de Informaciones Nacional) maintains centers for interrogation where dozens of suspects are brutally tortured as a matter of routine. Says a senior foreign diplomat in Santiago: "With the single exception of detainees released [meaning those interrogated and exiled], I defy you to find any tangible improvement in human rights...
...money may prove to be well spent. A 19th century biographer of Ferdinand de Lesseps, the French diplomat who completed the canal in 1869, said that the waterway "traced for civilization a pacific and productive route across the sands of the desert." It also saved mercantile countries huge sums in shipping charges. Closing the canal has cost an estimated $10 billion in the extra expense of sending goods around Africa's southern tip. By the end of this week, when the first convoy starts north from Suez city, ships traveling from the Persian Gulf will be able...