Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...predawn jogging of groups of Nicaraguan army soldiers near the city's Intercontinental Hotel. In the town of San Fernando, nearly 159 miles from the capital, the only sign of combat was a cornfield still ablaze as a result of fighting the day before. Said a U.S. diplomat in Washington: "They have clearly got a fighting situation on their hands. But they are hyping it beyond proportion...
...brains of the insurgency. Its job is to pass orders to the second staff, which in turn relays them to the contra commanders. The coordinator of the separate command group activities is said by the F.D.N. sources to be John Negroponte, U.S. Ambassador to Honduras. Says a Western diplomat: "His job is to keep the Hondurans in the game. He keeps them enthusiastic...
...tough talk, the Soviets were careful to hold out a tattered olive branch. Ogarkov's public comments stopped well short of more serious threats that Soviet officials have made previously through diplomatic channels. Arbatov also noted that any change in Washington's attitude "will, of course, be noticed in Moscow." TIME has learned that President Reagan recently invited Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin for a private chat and assured the veteran diplomat that he is personally committed to peace. It was a tiny step in easing tensions...
When the Westinghouse Science Talent Search named its top achievers this month, the announcement was yet another instance of a growing national trend. Grand Winner Paul Ning, 16, is not a native-born American. The son of a Taiwanese diplomat, Ning came to the U.S. at the age of three. By eleven, he was constructing a simple wind tunnel to study the relationship between velocity and pressure. Now a senior at the elite Bronx High School of Science in New York City, Ning feels, "You have to be aggressive in your studies to really understand what you're doing...
DIED. Donald Maclean, 69, British diplomat who with his fellow Cambridge graduate Guy Burgess was at the center of Britain's most infamous spy scandal in the past half-century; of cancer; in Moscow. Recruited at college in the 1930s with his lover Burgess by Anthony Blunt, then a don, Maclean was a mole in the British embassy in Washington, where he had access to highly classified Allied documents, including U.S. atomic secrets. Tipped by another Soviet mole that they were suspected of spying, Maclean and Burgess escaped from England to the U.S.S.R. in 1951. "My God, Maclean knew...