Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There are too many political incentives in this election year for the Administration to give up any prospective dialogue with the Soviets. Some U.S. officials remain cautiously hopeful despite Moscow's near nyet. Said a senior U.S. diplomat: "It was tactical, not decisive. No one here has concluded that the Soviets have decided they do not want to go to Vienna." Nevertheless, said a White House official, "people here are less optimistic than they were before...
...maneuver went tragically awry. Amtrak's New England Zip, heading from Washington, D.C., to Boston, rammed head-on into another Amtrak train, the Shoreliner, en route from Boston to New York City, on a trestle 80 ft. above a shopping district in Queens, N.Y. The crash left Spanish Diplomat Enrique Gilarranz dead and 125 other passengers injured. When an Amtrak train hit a pickup truck at a grade crossing in South Carolina three days later, killing one person, the number of fatal Amtrak accidents in the past month reached five...
...Those who were privy to all this were praying like crazy for a Labor win," said a senior U.S. diplomat last week. "Now it's all out the window for the most part...
...tall, bespectacled young Soviet diplomat drew world attention last February as a grieving figure alongside his father's flower-decked bier. Last week Greek officials announced that Igor Andropov, 38, son of the late Soviet leader, had been named Ambassador to Athens...
William Boyd's leading men tend to be ham-fisted brutes in a state of eternal frustration. Their weighty (245 Ibs.) prototype is Morgan Leafy, the splenetic diplomat at the center of Boyd's first novel, A Good Man in Africa. That account of coming of age in western Africa, published in the U.S. two years ago when Boyd was 30, certified him as a connoisseur of twits and cads. It also showcased Boyd's gift for spinning out old-fashioned tales that bounce along as smartly as a scriptwriter on holiday. Now, in his first collection...