Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with Foreign Minister Allan MacEachen every three months. Colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the early 1950s, the two men enjoyed an excellent rapport that quickly trickled down through their respective bureaucracies. "We got energized knowing that our bosses were looking over our shoulders," says a U.S. diplomat. The meetings focused primarily on trade and economic issues; though Mulroney has not yet named MacEachen's successor, both U.S. and Canadian officials expect trade barriers to fall...
Quebec has often struck outsiders as a byword for radicals and recalcitrance. The French-speaking province sends its own delegates abroad and calls its legislature the National Assembly. In 1970 a lunatic fringe agitating for Quebec's secession from Canada murdered a Cabinet minister, kidnaped a British diplomat, and set off so many explosions, both verbal and physical, that Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau invoked the War Measures Act, Canada's equivalent of martial law. Even today the nation's most eccentric voice of disaffection, the nonsensical Rhinoceros Party, is based and enjoys its greatest following in Montreal...
Moldt released a statement later vaguely hinting that "many questions are still open." But the rest of the message effectively dampened speculation that the Honecker trip would be rescheduled any time soon. The East German diplomat expressed no regrets for the last-minute cancellation. Instead he blamed the West Germans, charging that "the style and public dispute about this visit in the Federal Republic have been extremely degrading and detrimental...
West Germans were eager to interpret every statement from East Berlin last week in the most positive light. Still, the Kohl government could not hide its disappointment at the turn of events. "The momentum from both sides seemed to be just right for the visit," said a Western diplomat. "Now a lot of air has been let out of the balloon." West German Negotiator Jenninger said he expected that "dialogue wanted by both sides" will continue. He challenged the East German explanation that "public dispute" over the trip in the West had forced Honecker to stay home...
...mind is a Nicaraguan election that would include such figures as the contra leaders, who are currently banned from the country as traitors. In return, the election results would receive Washington's blessing, even if, as State Department officials expect, the Sandinistas win. Says a Washington diplomat: "We are pushing for something that would probably legitimize them. It is stupid for them not to concede...