Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...doctor, at least, knew where he was. By now the Marines had set up a roadblock at the coastal bridge leading into Queen's Park. A Soviet diplomat who found himself there seemed less sure than the doctor of his whereabouts. Boris Nikolayev, who described himself as an economic counselor, stood with a letter in hand. He was visibly nervous. He leaned against his shiny black Mercedes-Benz with an aide, waving the letter he wished to deliver to the head of the country, whoever that was. One Soviet embassy official had been wounded. "It was not direct shooting...
...statement was clearly designed to lay blame on the U.S. for any failure of the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) talks. It amounted, in the words of one Western diplomat, to a "last-ditch effort" to drive a wedge between NATO governments. On both counts, the Soviet strategy seemed to fall flat. In Washington, President Reagan deftly countered Andropov by challenging the Soviets "to negotiate seriously at Geneva" and vowing that the U.S. "will stay at the negotiating table as long as necessary." NATO defense ministers, meeting last week at the Canadian resort of Château Montebello, near Ottawa...
...Genscher to help arrange a summit between the superpowers to help avert a crisis over the missile deployment. The latest Soviet moves appeared to signal an increased willingness in Moscow to push its war of nerves with Washington over the missiles to the crisis point. Said a West European diplomat: "The Soviets are trying to scare the hell out of everyone...
...timing of the new barrage of threats was clearly calculated to heighten anxiety among West Germans just as the antimissile demonstrations heat up. In addition, Moscow was trying to place the blame for the stalled Geneva talks on the U.S. Says a Western diplomat: "They do not want to appear to bless any U.S. deployment before it takes place." Anticipating the Soviet tactic last week even before Zamyatin's remarks, U.S. officials publicly said that a Soviet walkout at Geneva might be imminent. The warning was an attempt to put the burden of responsibility for a breakdown...
...That diplomat probably returned to work with those "assholes" for the same reasons Buckley writes: a sense of obligation as a citizen and a fear of boredom. "I do not like to write," Buckley says, "for the simple reason that writing is extremely hard work, and I do not 'like' hard work." Rather he may write to escape boredom or serve his cause or maybe not. "It is easier to stay up late working for hours," Buckley reasons, "than to take one-tenth the time to inquire into the question whether the work is worth performing...