Word: diplomatic
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Mexican novelist diplomat Carlos Fuentes this afternoon's principal Commencement speaker brings a unique background of political involvement and literary reflection to the Tercentenary Theater podium...
...Fuentes was never a "confrontational leftist," Womack said. Instead, the novelist-diplomat is a "traditional Mexican nationalist." Fuentes was "one of the most active intellectuals" in Mexico's National Liberation Movement, an early 1960s coalition of leftists within Mexico's ruling Revolutionary Institution Party (PRI), he added...
...leading and probable" candidate to replace Hinton is Gerald E. Thomas, a retired Navy admiral who is Ambassador to Guyana. A black, Thomas had once been proposed by Clark for a position under Enders in Washington, but Enders had opposed him. Thomas, 53, who holds a Ph.D. in diplomatic history from Yale and has been a Russian interpreter, is seen by the White House as a nonbureaucratic type of "cando" diplomat...
...British Broadcasting Corp., which picked up the revealing reports in its routine monitoring of foreign radio transmissions, experts said that Danchev had made a similar mistake a week earlier. That broadcast also concerned Afghanistan. One Western diplomat was convinced that the mistakes were deliberate. Said he: "It represents the first time that the Soviet media have rebelled against the Kremlin's policy in Afghanistan...
Ironically, Bouterse was initially so suspicious of the left that he expelled a Cuban diplomat suspected of subversive plotting and imprisoned a radical activist for meeting Cuban leaders in Nicaragua. But with the encouragement of Grenada's Prime Minister Maurice Bishop, who had led a Marxist coup on his nearby Caribbean island in 1979, Bouterse drifted gradually leftward. Soon he was visiting Fidel Castro, singing his praises and allowing the Soviets and Cubans to open well-staffed embassies in the riverfront capital of Paramaribo. Nevertheless, Bouterse's revolutionary fervor remained relatively lackadaisical: he never bothered to nationalize private...