Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...humble origins (his father was a small shopkeeper), and his concern for Peru's poor seems genuine. But since coming to office in the coup that overthrew the constitutional government of Fernando Belaunde Terry in 1968, Velasco has become increasingly entranced with defending his power. Says one diplomat: "He has a will of steel, he understands people, and he is ruthless...
While the military has kept its plans for the future a closely held secret, it seems unlikely that the colonels and generals have decided to relinquish all the power they wielded for seven years. A diplomat in Athens skeptically notes, "The military made a mess of the Cyprus situation and the economy. Now they want the civilians to clean it up." Certainly, if the civilian government disintegrates into the bickering factions that paralyzed it in the three years before the 1967 coup or seems to be moving too far leftward, the officers would probably take over again...
Lined up on the other side of this emotionally charged debate are a group of 29 modern industrial nations, led (loosely) by the U.S. and the Soviet Union and including the European countries plus Canada, Australia and Japan. French Diplomat Michel Lennuyeaux-Comnene makes no secret of the fact that his country "is hostile to a vote of the majority of developing nations dictating maritime law to the minority of countries technologically capable of exploiting the seas." Other rich-country officials agree, though few care to state their feelings so bluntly. But no one denies that the large maritime nations...
...global seafood haul has more than doubled since 1950, and the sustainable catch limits have already been reached in some species: the American lobster, halibut, haddock, tuna, cod and salmon. French Diplomat Michel Lennuyeaux-Comnene, a spokesman on fisheries policies, says that the seas are being so badly overfished that there may well be "no more fishing" in only 20 years. He warns: "We're literally eating our capital...
...Emperor was driven in his red Mercedes one mile from Jubilee Palace to the Grand Palace to put in what an aide described as "his customary day of work." Politically, however, the Emperor has become "as toothless as those old lions that guard his palaces," as one Western diplomat in Addis Ababa rudely...