Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have a sense," said a Western diplomat in Peking, "that when a quarter of humanity swings in a new direction, the direction of all history is changed...
Chinese officials often seem taken aback by the sheer novelty of their recent economic achievements. "Tell me," an experienced Chinese diplomat asked in Peking not long ago, "do you really think China is going capitalist?" It is not, of course. The key means of production remain in the ! hands of the state, and the Communist Party is firmly in charge. The question that should be asked is this: Is China growing out of its half-century-long embrace of Marxist metaphysics? The answer is a qualified...
...comrade-in-arms, Joshua Nkomo, 67, began to quarrel over the political spoils. Today Nkomo and his Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) are locked in a bitter struggle for control of the country's future with Mugabe and his dominant Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU). Says a Western diplomat in Harare, the capital: "Mugabe must often wish that Nkomo would just retire, but the old man refuses to go away...
After more than a year of investigation and interrogation, Treholt last week became one of the highest-ranking Western diplomats ever to be tried on charges of spying for the Soviet Union. Many of the proceedings are expected to be held in camera, but information about Treholt's alleged spying career has begun to emerge. Prosecutors will try to prove that the diplomat was an undercover agent for the KGB for ten years...
...been secretly photographed in 1975 while at an orgy in Moscow. From then on, say Norwegian officials, he was a Soviet spy. He was posted in 1979 to the Norwegian delegation to the United Nations in New York, where he regularly handed over information to a Soviet diplomat...