Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...echoed Arafat's warlike words. They indicated that Damascus would probably approve another six-month tour for United Nations troops that separate Syrians and Israelis along the Golan Heights. "We'll need six months to get ready, unless Israel agrees to withdraw from the Golan Heights," said one Syrian diplomat cryptically. At week's end there were reports in Jerusalem about an increased military buildup along the Heights...
...contrast with the dissident young, older Iranians appear to have accepted the priorities. In place of political freedom, they are willing to accept a stunning improvement in their lifestyles. Comments a Western diplomat in Tehran: "If you want to call that buying off -economic gain for the loss of political expression-you might be right." As the middle class is uneasily aware, Iran's new prosperity is unevenly shared. A scant 10% of the people control 40% of the wealth, while the bottom 30% enjoy only 8% of it. Inflation, now running at 20%, diminishes even these gains. Until...
...Liberation of Oman, which is currently fighting Sultan Qabus in Oman, could block the strait by sinking a supertanker. The Shah's response has been a pride of military powers so vast that he not only can neutralize the guerrillas but also dominate the gulf. Says one U.S. diplomat: "The Arabs like to call it the Arabian Gulf. But it really is the Persian Gulf. It's the Shah's lake...
...recent weeks, Henry Kissinger has sometimes talked rather more like a Harvard historian than a pragmatic diplomat-negotiator. To aides, newsmen and foreign officials, Kissinger allowed that he feared the possibility of political instability in parts of Europe and that some nations, as a result of the economic crisis, might in desperation embrace authoritarian forms of government...
Only time will tell whether "the Russian Woodstock" (as one French diplomat called it) signals the beginning of an end to Soviet insistence on cultural conformity. Said one exhibitor: "We are skeptics by experience. Perhaps this will be the start of a great tradition, or perhaps there will just be more repression." In any case, the success of the show has already had its impact on other Soviet artists. A group of iconoclastic Moscow poets are talking about asking permission to hold a public outdoor reading of their proscribed verse...