Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...since. In a move described as a precautionary step in preparation for the latest elections, Zia last week ordered the arrest of hundreds of opposition politicians and others who might prove to be a disruptive influence to his vision of "Islamic democracy." Said a senior Western diplomat in Karachi: "This is an invisible election. The constraints have choked the life...
...believes the parched and partly torn pages, dated in the late 1790's by a British diplomat. Lord Macartney, are the preliminary notes of Macartney's visit to China in the late 18th century. A full manuscript about the trip was eventually published...
Macartney's trip was the first British effort to form political relations with the Far Eastern nation. The diplomat was sent to China by King George III of England in 1792, according to the latest issue of a Harvard Library newsletter which reports Lum's find...
...held by the same Shi'ite group, possibly in the very building where Levin was detained. Levin reported that other prisoners were in the building, but he could not hear their voices well enough to know whether they were the four Americans: William Buckley, 56, a U.S. diplomat who has been missing since March 16; the Rev. Benjamin Weir, 60, a Presbyterian minister who disappeared May 8; Peter Kilburn, 60, a librarian at the American University of Beirut who was last seen Dec. 3; and Father Lawrence Jenco, 51, head of the Catholic Relief Service office in Beirut...
Almost everybody agreed that there had been confusion over what was supposed to happen. Before the plane arrived, a South Korean official aboard apparently neglected to brief the Kim party on arrival procedures. A U.S. diplomat in Seoul said later that the South Koreans had "changed the plan several times, the last time being less than 30 minutes before Kim's plane arrived." The South Koreans are highly security conscious, all the more so since the 1983 incident in Rangoon, Burma, when several South Korean Cabinet ministers were killed by a bomb supposedly set by agents from Communist North Korea...