Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...central issue, relations with the Soviet Union, there has been what one top diplomat called "a whiff or two of movement" from Moscow of late. But the movement seems isolated in such secondary areas as a human rights agreement at the marathon conference in Madrid (see WORLD). In the far more important arena of nuclear-arms talks, new details of a Soviet proposal seemed to emphasize rather than ease a continuing deadlock. In the Middle East, U.S. diplomacy has stalled severely. Late last week the White House had not even received official confirmation that Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin would...
...late last week ten suspects had been arrested, including a low-level Guatemalan diplomat, eight people from the Washington area and two Miami residents. Dora Ileana Caceres, 32, third secretary in the Guatemalan mission to the Organization of American States, her husband Juan, a businessman, and her nephew were arrested after her diplomatic status was rescinded by Guatemala following consultations with the State Department...
...documents seen by TIME, Israel handled most of its sales through Faroukh Azzizi, an Iranian arms merchant who lives in Athens. The papers show that Azzizi purchased U.S.-made Tow missiles from Israel in November 1982. The shipment went to Amsterdam before reaching Tehran. Says a senior Western diplomat in Brussels: "Israeli and American claims that Israel made only a single, isolated sale are pretty disingenuous." The Israeli government firmly denies any wrong doing. Said Defense Ministry Spokesman Nachman Shai last week: "We have not violated any agreement between the U.S. and us that forbids selling American-made weapons...
...fact that the conference operated by consensus. The objections of any one country were often enough to stall negotiations. Last year the Madrid conference held no sessions between February and November because of Western concern over the imposition of martial law in Poland. As a senior U.S. diplomat put it, "It's the only kind of international court we have in which to drag the Soviets into the docket on human rights...
...Soviets are, of course, mindful that West Germany is their principal Western trading partner. Annoying as he may have been to them, Kohl knew he was dealing from a position of strength, and he left no doubts about the thrust of West German foreign policy. Said a Soviet diplomat, with an air of resignation: "We have to put the emphasis on long-term relations despite the serious problem of the missiles...