Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gaddafi's most predictable trait is bis unpredictability. "It's almost impossible to evaluate the man in rational terms," says a British diplomat. "With the coming of dawn, he may take off on a completely new tack." He is a man of mercury, quick to anger. Once when his second in command, Abdul Salam Jalloud, made a mistake, Gaddafi had Jalloud's hair shaved off. He often carries a side arm; more than once, he has lost patience and pulled out his gun, aiming it at the person who offended...
...technically well-informed opponent in the debate over Senate ratification of the treaty. Yet while Nitze's reputation is hawkish, he has never called for a return to military superiority over the Soviet Union. "Perhaps brilliant is not the right word to describe his mind," says a veteran diplomat who has known him for years. "But it is very precise and disciplined...
...Bonn, Kvitsinsky came across as outspoken, unyielding and yet not dogmatic. "He always takes the Soviet line, but he doesn't talk ideology," one fellow diplomat observes. "After a while you even get to like him." That will not make him easy to deal with. Warns a Soviet colleague: "If you compare his age with Nitze's, you will see who has more time to sit and talk in Geneva...
Dressed in crisp glen plaids, a white handkerchief neatly puffed from breast pocket, Haig is a dandy. He seems the very model of the modern military diplomat. He has a square face, a terrier's chin and eyes that obscure a great deal. He loves his work. He just may win his campaign to be the predominant formulator of foreign policy...
These righteous admonitions by the Greeks were especially resented by the French, who had sponsored the Chad resolution. Said one exasperated diplomat: "The Greeks' nuisance value has been so high since they came into the Community that I sometimes think we would have been better off if they had stayed...