Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sent his ruthless brother, who had become an extremely powerful palace figure, overseas as a roving good-will ambassador. The rivalry between Lon Non and Premier Boret was reportedly delaying formation of a new Cabinet last week. "Here it is, at one minute to midnight," snapped one disgusted Western diplomat, "and these guys are still haggling over who is going to be what in the new government...
...from on to off the record, or becomes the unspecified "senior official" who by now is a familiar passenger. When it suits his purpose, he obfuscates. "You must accept the fact," Kissinger will say, "that many problems you want to clear up as newsmen are those which as a diplomat it is in my interest to confuse...
...chair will be named after George Seferis, an internationally knows literary figure and diplomat who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1963. He died...
...choice is Lane Kirkland, 52, now the AFL-CIO'S secretary-treasurer. Although Kirkland is not "a man to set 'em on fire," in the words of one union official, he is respected as an able, knowledgeable and tough-minded leader. He is also something of a diplomat. Kirkland keeps telling people that he will probably be retiring from the AFL-CIO before George does...
Nowhere is the boom in arms sales more apparent than in the Persian Gulf. "There is very little on the outer reaches of military technology that is not coming into this area," notes a Western diplomat in Tehran. With oil profits exceeding $56 billion last year, the nations of the Gulf have plunged into what may well become the most expensive and competitive arms race in history. In the past two years, Iran has gone on such an arms-buying spree that it has spent $7.6 billion in the U.S. alone acquiring one of the world's most modern arsenals...