Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...adrift. "One can say that the main reason Italy is still democratic and not fascistic is that it is tied to the rest of Europe," says Rome University Sociologist Franco Ferrarotti. "If Italy is cut loose, it will truly become a disaster." Brandt's proposal, adds an American diplomat, would mean "the breakup of the Community on the installment plan...
...machine-gun fire. Only the next morning did the stunned citizens of Addis Ababa hear the radio announcement that the ruling Provisional Military Council, after nine months of relative moderation, had summarily executed 59 members of the regime of deposed Emperor Haile Selassie. "My God," said a Western diplomat in the Ethiopian capital, "they've wiped out the old aristocracy in a single stroke...
...Diplomacy. Moreover, TIME learned last week from a ranking Soviet diplomat in Damascus that a letter had recently been sent by Leonid Brezhnev to Assad asking the Syrian leader to remain calm. Brezhnev wrote that the Soviets would "make every possible effort" to have the Geneva Conference reconvene as soon as possible but probably not before the Soviet leader's visit to Syria in January. In exchange for such an assurance, the Soviet diplomat added, the Syrians were "very likely" to renew the U.N. mandate before it expires Nov. 30. To do otherwise, as the Syrians must know, would...
Late last week the new Premier appointed Dimitri Bitsios as Foreign Minister. Bitsios is an experienced diplomat who worked on the 1960 Cyprus agreement and has been in charge of the foreign ministry since George Mavros resigned to campaign. Caramanlis' other Cabinet choices were viewed as solid professionals if somewhat disappointingly conservative. All are members of his own party...
...prospects and stocks, agree on the size of global reserves necessary to protect against famine and share responsibility for storing and distributing the stockpiled grain. In its emphasis on distribution by need rather than commercial demand, Kissinger's proposal was an almost revolutionary departure-certainly for a U.S. diplomat -from the free-market system of trade...