Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...venue for Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko to talk with Shultz-and possibly with Reagan. In the aftermath of the KAL 007 crisis, Gromyko was refused entry last year to international airports in New York and New Jersey, and he decided to cancel his annual U.N. appearance. The veteran diplomat has been included on this session's roster of speakers, but there is no official word from Moscow about his plans...
...their seriousness and flexibility in the closed-door conversations. In particular, the U.S. is challenging the Sandinistas to come to terms before the U.S. presidential election. In Washington, State Department officials were exuding confidence that the situation was stacked heavily in the Administration's favor. Says a U.S. diplomat: "The question boils down to whether these guys know a good deal when they see one, and are capable of taking...
Since Shultz's visit, the U.S. representative at the talks has been Ambassador Harry Shlaudeman, a highly regarded career diplomat. Shlaudeman has held four meetings with his opposite number, Nicaraguan Deputy Foreign Minister Victor Hugo Tinoco: three in Manzanillo and a fourth at a motel on the outskirts of Atlanta. As a sign of good faith, both sides have remained determinedly close-mouthed about the discussions. U.S. diplomats in Washington, however, have revealed that only two of the meetings were spent on minor procedural issues. Says a U.S. official: "There has been no grandstanding or stalling. The talks moved...
...return for those changes, the U.S. is prepared to offer infusions of assistance, especially to replace whatever funds Nicaragua would lose by cutting its ties with the East bloc. Says a U.S. diplomat: "As far as money, aid and investment go, they know we've got more to offer." U.S. officials also argue that the Sandinistas would win increased assistance from Western Europe, where aid to Nicaragua has dried up as once friendly governments have grown skeptical about the junta's intentions for installing pluralistic democracy...
More important, many Western experts doubt whether a terrorist organization could on its own carry out a task as logistically difficult as planting mines along the length of the Red Sea. Says a diplomat in the gulf: "Mine laying is beyond the capabilities of the usual terrorist group. A government has to be involved, but no government is going to take responsibility for this sort of terrorism." Speculation quickly centered on two radical Islamic nations with reasons of their own to disrupt Western shipping and embarrass Egypt: Iran and Libya...