Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Viktor Khitrichenko, 48, a senior engineer in the economics section of the Soviet embassy in New Delhi for the past two years, last Thursday began ordinarily enough. The Indian chauffeur took the diplomat and his wife shopping, and then began driving back to the embassy. It was noon when the driver steered the off-white, Soviet-built Volga onto Satya Marg, an expansive boulevard in the heart of the capital's exclusive Chanakyapuri diplomatic enclave...
...fate of another Soviet diplomat in New Delhi also raised concern last week. On March 17, Igor Gezha, 37, a third secretary, vanished near Lodi Gardens, where he customarily jogged early in the morning. Indian police wondered if Gezha, who was known to have an avid interest in Hinduism, might have defected and joined a religious organization. They also did not rule out a possible connection with the Khitrichenko shooting. Early this week it was announced that Gezha had defected to the United States embassy in New Delhi where he was granted political asylum...
...over the past year have yet to be released. Still in the country are an estimated 1,400 Americans. The U.S. aircraft carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower and the guided- missile cruiser Mississippi were standing by off the Lebanese coast, prepared to carry out a larger evacuation. Observed a Western diplomat in Beirut: "We are moving into dangerous, uncharted areas. The violence is spiraling out of control...
Andropov also began the task of bringing new faces into the uppermost reaches of the bureaucracy, replacing 32 of the 157 regional party secretaries, often with younger men. That was only a small tremor in a shift that is still moving through the bureaucracy. According to a senior British diplomat, the largest turnover of local Communist officials in recent memory took place during biennial party committee elections between November 1983 and January 1984. Nonetheless, the pace of change remains slow, and most top officials in the Soviet bureaucracy are, like most Politburo members, in their...
According to one Western diplomat in Khartoum, "The arrests seem to represent a shift away from the extreme policies of the past toward an atmosphere of reconciliation." Whether the President's latest moves will calm the country, says a former government minister, "depends on what Nimeiri ; does next...