Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Administration sources, the resumption of ties will be effected next week, when Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz meets in Washington with President Reagan. Washington officials believe Iraq's four-year war with Iran has been the incentive for Baghdad to move closer to the U.S. Says one U.S. diplomat: "They have now made it clear they can defend themselves by themselves, so this would be the proper moment to go ahead and reestablish ties with...
Sources within the anti-Soviet Afghan resistance movement say that the children will join an estimated 16,000 to 20,000 Afghan youngsters who have been forcibly sent to the Soviet Union over the past four years. One Western diplomat in Islamabad, Pakistan, says that the Soviets, faced with widespread opposition in Afghanistan, "may have concluded that nothing short of Sovietization inside the U.S.S.R. would make much of an ideological dent in Afghan youth...
...sees Torrijos the politician, yielding to irate farmers on the price of crops. Later we see the General's humanitarian side as he builds a complex for refugees from other, less benevolent military rulers. When Greene accompanies him to Washington to sign the canal treaties, we see Torrijos the diplomat, delivering a pointed yet polite address to the U.S. Senate. But mostly we see Torrijos the person, confiding in Greene his loves, his fears and most of all his dreams for the future of Central America and U.S.-Latin American relations. Greene is very effective in painting Torrijos...
...many in the nation as Amma (mother), begat Rajiv and then Sanjay. When the prodigal younger son and heir apparent died in a plane crash in 1980, his brother Rajiv, almost inevitably, took his place. "Indira believed that the House of Nehru was what India needed," said a Western diplomat last week. "In that she was imperious but, believe it or not, that's what Indians wanted...
Officials in Washington were outraged at Lewis' remarks. Secretary of State George Shultz was described as "chewing the carpet." The State Department noted lamely that Lewis, a highly regarded career diplomat, did not "criticize the substance" of the Reagan plan. Lewis emphasized that the remarks were "personal musings" and an embassy spokesman said that the Ambassador "remained firmly committed" to the Reagan proposal...