Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...exact nature of the organization remains murky; indeed, many experts doubt that it really exists as a cohesive entity. "It's very mysterious," said a Western diplomat in the gulf last week. "It's not really one group at all, but an umbrella name for the work done by any number of smaller groups." Taken together, the units appear to work with the aid and support of Iran, but not as a single body...
...dubious and ill-conceived political ploy. State Department Spokesman Joseph Reap said the measure, which seems to have broad congressional support, might violate international agreements on protecting the dignity of foreign missions, lead to Soviet retaliation and prove counterproductive in freeing Sakharov. Said a disgusted U.S. diplomat of Congress: "Somebody ought to go up there and put a lock on that place...
...Chancellor Helmut Kohl last week dismissed the Soviet campaign as "completely absurd defamation." Officials in Bonn say the blasts from Moscow will in no way affect the Honecker visit. The Soviet attacks may reflect the Kremlin's desire, as a Soviet official put it to a West German diplomat in Moscow recently, "to treat the West Germans the same way we treat the Americans." But they also give voice to deep-rooted fears that Germany will one day be reunited and become hostile to the Soviet Union. Said a Western diplomat: "They are putting down a marker to remind...
Meanwhile, a former Nicaraguan diplomat who defected last fall told a Senate subcommittee on drug abuse that several Sandinista leaders were directly involved in smuggling cocaine into the U.S. In Miami, a U.S. Attorney presented a federal court with photographs purporting to show Nicaraguan soldiers and a government aide loading cocaine onto a plane bound for Miami. The Sandinistas have denied the charges, which first surfaced in July...
...German Communist Party Leader Erich Honecker is due to make a four-day visit to West Germany in late September. Earlier this year Honecker allowed 27,182 East Germans to emigrate to the West. The loan accord is viewed as another "goodwill backdrop," in the words of a Western diplomat. A senior aide to Kohl hailed the transaction as the kind of step "we could only dream of years...