Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Washington, Martin is still highly regarded by Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. But even old colleagues who once admired him as the very model of a professional diplomat now express their worry that he has become a testy, overzealous apologist for President Thieu...
Within three months after last April's revolution, the Soviets had established a skeleton embassy staff under Ambassador Arnold I. Kalinin, 45, a smooth diplomat who had previously served as charge d'affaires in Havana. Today the Russian embassy has an official staff of 15-roughly the same size as the American mission. Perhaps more important, there are about 120 Russians and non-diplomats employed as administrative staff and as representatives of Aeroflot, Tass and the Novotny Bank...
...French could not resist pronouncing America's decline. Gloated Le Monde in its headline: WHAT PEACE? WHAT HONOR? A Le Point editorial warned: "This is what has become of the American giant. Let Europe beware. His paralysis is contagious." But one French diplomat expressed the predominant view of officials there that "American power has not collapsed...
...murderous crossfire. For a variety of reasons, many South Vietnamese had cause to fear their own armed forces. After ARVN abandoned one town last month, the South Vietnamese air force promptly flattened the place with bombs. In city after city, marooned South Vietnamese troops were running wild. A British diplomat noted: "The civilian refugees have as much to fear from the vanquished soldiers as they do from the victors...
...legitimate" representative of the Palestinian people. The P.L.O., however, is still ignored by the U.S. and completely rejected by the Israelis. One solution, advocated by both Egypt and Syria, would be to include P.L.O. representatives within a united Arab delegation to the conference. Last week a high-ranking Israeli diplomat suggested that his government would not object to the inclusion of the P.L.O. in a Syrian delegation. Thus a compromise on this issue may be possible...