Word: diplomatic
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...Andres Vargas Gomez, 69, a poet and a former diplomat who is the grandson of General Maximo Gomez, the architect of Cuban independence. Imprisoned by Castro in 1961, Vargas last week was reunited at Dulles with his wife Maria, a college teacher in Miami he had not seen for 24 years. (Vargas was not in prison at the time of the release but was being held on the island.) Invited by Jesse Jackson to join an airport news conference, Vargas took issue with Jackson's self-described peace offensive. Said he: "We don't want a peace that...
Before leaving for Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad, the scene of a decisive Soviet victory against the Germans in 1942), Mitterrand said that the U.S.-Soviet dialogue currently appears to be so chilled that it is "closer to the pole than the equator." A senior Western diplomat expressed a similar view: "We are in for a long haul of this Soviet mood. The Soviets have dug themselves in and they are going to have difficulty digging themselves out." -By Hunter R. Clark. Reported by Erik Amfitheatrof/Moscow and Jordan Bonfante with Mitterrand
...supply of American-made Hawk missiles and augment its skimpy radar facilities. For the past two weeks, a 20-man team from the Pentagon has been in Kuwait discussing the country's security needs. "We assume Kuwait is No. 1 on the escalation scenario," says a senior U.S. diplomat. In other words, Kuwait would be the first victim...
...boundaries in 1922, Kuwaiti foreign policy has been in a state of delicate balance. The country has resolutely avoided attachments to any of its more powerful neighbors, notably Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Iran, which is separated from Kuwait by a slender, 25-mile finger of Iraq. Notes one Western diplomat: "The only things the Kuwaitis have are diplomacy and money. They either try to talk themselves out of trouble or buy themselves out." During the past six months, the Kuwaitis have been doing a lot of both. Despite a historically uncomfortable relationship with Baghdad, the Kuwaitis, along with the Saudis...
Above all, Gromyko is recognized as an indestructible practitioner of Realpolitik. Says a West German diplomat: "He knows the long-term objectives of Soviet policy as no other human, and he sees things in that light...