Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most dynamic heir apparent that Saudi Arabia has ever had. In both style and personality, the affable, perpetually smiling Fahd is a sharp contrast to the dour, ascetic Faisal. Nonetheless the two men worked well together. "Fahd was like the student to the professor," remarked a Western diplomat in Riyadh last week. "In many ways he is a copy of King Faisal...
...France, as well as Spain, are exerting considerable pressure on the Portuguese left to go slowly so as not to provoke a torrent of reaction all across the Continent. The Soviet strategy, meanwhile, has been to offer adroit public reassurances of its friendship, send to Lisbon what one Western diplomat describes as "every dance troupe and chorus in Russia" and quietly beef up the sizable staff it has had quartered in a modern office building in Lisbon since diplomatic relations were established last year...
...concrete move, they know that it would drive the West Europeans through the roof. Ultimately, detente would be at stake. When things are going your way, such risks are unnecessary, and if I were thinking this through in Moscow that is how I would see it." Another Western diplomat offers an equally disquieting thought: "The diabolical theory is that the Soviets will be very happy to see Portugal remain in NATO as a thorn in the side of the alliance - not a cancer but a thorn." Portugal already is a thorn in the alliance's side. What worries...
...council as a supreme political authority in an all-night session following the coup attempt. Many moderates, who had previously defeated similar attempts to create such a council, were in hiding or frightened away from the emergency meeting. "The council reflects radical thinking in the M.F.A.," said a European diplomat. "More than that we cannot say with assurance." Late last week the council increased its membership to 28 with the addition of four new members, including three prominent moderates. They are expected to provide a braking influence on the radicals...
...Proletariat Party (M.R.P.P.), were banned. Both were accused of staging violent street demonstrations and disrupting rival political rallies, but some observers thought that they were being eliminated at the behest of Portugal's Moscow-oriented Communists. "The Communist game is to play Mr. Clean," said one foreign diplomat. "The Maoists would only have been in the way, fueling fears both here and abroad that dangerous leftist loonies were on the loose...