Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...frenzied military buildup and bullying its neighbors, so it must take the first step toward relaxation. The U.S. would respond quickly to any move, but meanwhile it will make no new offers of its own. "It would be nutty to do more than gesture," said a top U.S. diplomat in Washington. "We would certainly not want to change the substance of our policy merely because they have changed leaders in Moscow." President Reagan scheduled a speech Monday in which he was to propose "confidence-building" measures to lessen the danger of nuclear war by accident, like advance notification by each...
...case, Reagan, though now willing to moderate U.S. rhetoric, is a visceral anti-Soviet who hates to reverse course, and the increasingly influential Shultz (see box) is by temperament a cautious diplomat who likes to formulate policy only after a situation has been thoroughly analyzed, and it will take time to assess the new constellation of forces in the Kremlin. Says a Shultz aide: "Where is the U.S.S.R. going? The serious answer is that we don't know." In Shultz's mind, that justifies a wait-and-see attitude...
...cushions. The coffin was placed on a gun carriage drawn by an amphibious army scout car, the modern-day Soviet equivalent of the traditional horse-drawn caisson. Soldiers with fixed bayonets goose-stepped alongside the carriage as a military band played Chopin's Funeral March. Said a Western diplomat: "It seemed as much a military event as the Nov. 7 parade...
Indeed, a number of them could still have a chance. Probably not Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, 73, a career diplomat who may have to be content with the largely symbolic post of Soviet President. Or Boris Ponomarev, 77, a onetime historian, who seemed the ideal candidate to fill the role of party "theologian" before Andropov took the job held by the late Mikhail Suslov. Not elder statesmen like Brezhnev's Premier, Nikolai Tikhonov, 77, a man with more experience in government than in the party apparatus, or the widely traveled and urbane Central Committee Secretary Konstantin Rusakov...
...yellow rain samples, as well as questionable diagnoses of alleged yellow rain victims, concluding that the evidence was insufficient to "prove or disprove the allegations." Critics charge that the findings were no coincidence, since the head of the department sponsoring the investigation was a Soviet. Says a U.S. diplomat: "The performance was lackluster at best...