Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President, the most influential man in the party, rules Mexico like a virtual monarch for six years. Then, after consulting with a few powerbrokers, he designates his heir. In a blitzkrieg campaign, the successor is paraded before the voters, who give him an overwhelming victory. Says a Western diplomat in Mexico City: "The only comparable party in the world is the Soviet Communist Party...
...plan adopted at Fez, Morocco, in September, as well as his plans for closer relations with Jordan. He is well aware of the rising political power of the West Bank Palestinians, a constituency that is fundamentally at odds with the old-line radicals of the P.L.O. Says a Western diplomat in Damascus: "Arafat has always survived as a great mediator of the P.L.O.'s internal problems by finding the lowest common denominator. Now he is facing drastic choices, which one or another of his main groups may not be able to accept...
...sharp contrast, the case of British Diplomat Rhona Ritchie, 30, was merely sad. She was convicted of relaying the contents of confidential cables to her lover, an Egyptian diplomat, while she served at the British embassy in Israel. Attorney General Havers condemned her indiscretions as "more foolish than wicked," noting that the cables' contents would eventually have become known in any case. Already dismissed from the foreign service, Ritchie received a nine-month suspended sentence...
...production. According to drug-enforcement agents, an estimated 70% of the heroin (derived from opium) coming into the U.S. either originates in or passes through Pakistan. But overshadowing all else is Soviet activity in Afghanistan, which has driven 2.8 million Afghans to seek refuge in Pakistan. Says a Western diplomat in Islamabad: "Sometimes Zia's streak of religious fanaticism scares me. But he's the best we've got in a very dangerous situation...
...world reaction to their accusations. One explanation, according to some experts, may be that the U.S., unfortunately, has not persuasively demonstrated that it is doing its best to document the charges. Noting that the State Department has only two part-time nonspecialists collecting evidence in Thailand, a Western European diplomat says: "With all the resources the U.S. has to call on, you'd think it would have at least one qualified person working full time on chemical warfare." Still, the more other governments speak out, the more effective the campaign against chemical warfare will...