Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...along New York City's Fifth Avenue and gun-toting criminals tailing intelligence agents along Italian autostrade. So secret was the operation that not even U.S. Ambassador to Italy Maxwell Rabb was aware of it until TIME Correspondent Jonathan Beaty, accompanied by Rome Correspondent Barry Kalb, questioned the diplomat two weeks ago. Beaty's report...
...high-ranking Nicaraguan diplomat last night charged the Reagan Administration with waging an uncartard war against Nicaragan in a speech last night at the Law School...
Begin is expected to hold the Defense portfolio himself for about a month, after which it is likely to go to Arens. A tough and occasionally abrasive diplomat, Arens is also an aeronautical engineer who keeps on his embassy desk the models of planes he has helped design, including the Kfir jet fighter. Born in Lithuania in 1925, he emigrated to the U.S. at the beginning of World War II. Later he served two years in the U.S. Army and studied aeronautical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1948 he emigrated to Israel, where he joined the Irgun...
...reinvigorate the economy and revive foreign confidence, Rawlings recently unveiled a new four-year recovery plan based on still more state control of the economy. "Successive Ghanaian governments have done more or less the same thing, with disastrous results," says a Western diplomat. "It seems like a new recipe for an old economic disaster...
...biographer himself has been transformed. Morgan changed his name from Sanche de Gramont in 1977 when he became a U.S. citizen. The son of a diplomat had been raised as a hereditary count in one of France's oldest aristocratic families. A graduate of Yale, Morgan detailed his affection for the U.S. in Rowing Toward Eden (1981). Now at work on a one-volume life of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Morgan says, "I think about him constantly. The subject is something that you can't get out of your head. They said that when William Manchester was working...