Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...surprisingly, Maccoby himself has done a little leading in his time. In 1954, as the president of The Crimson, he and George Abrams, the managing editor, stole the Lampoon's treasured ibis statue and presented it to a high-ranking Russian diplomat in New York as a token of goodwill and friendship on the part of all American students...
...members are drawn largely from the same worker and peasant ranks as members of Solidarity and its rural counterpart; so are 86% of the Polish officer corps. Conscripts tend to serve in the regions where they are drafted, adding further to their identification with local people. Says one Western diplomat in Warsaw: "An army like that is designed to defend the country and not to put down revolts. A third of the army has been drafted since August 1980. Another third was inducted the year before that. Their brothers, fathers and cousins are Solidarity members." Asks he rhetorically: "How much...
...acute. To an editor: "When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split." On James M. Cain (Double Indemnity): "Every thing he writes smells like a billy goat." On Somerset Maugham: His gift "belongs to the great judge or the great diplomat ... He would have made a great Roman." On John P. Marquand: "Beautiful detailed observation and the total effect of a steel engraving with no col or at all. I guess God made Boston on a wet Sunday." On Hemingway: "I suppose the weakness of writers like Hemingway is that their sort...
...with the selection of moderates for his Cabinet, inspired a hopeful response from Washington. "It's wait and see," said one State Department official. "We are cooling it. We are not about to cast the first stone." Europeans were equally cautious in their analysis. Noted one senior British diplomat: "The trend in almost all European countries is for a new leader, whether of the left or the right, to dilute the more radical policy pronouncements of his election manifesto and resort to good old pragmatism...
...gravest threat to the country's continued stability is Zimbabwe's worsening relationship with South Africa, which in 1980 provided some 27% of its imports, bought 17.5% of its exports and now handles fully 75% of its trade abroad. Mugabe, who broke diplomatic relations with the apartheid regime in September 1980, some five months after he assumed office, has strongly criticized South Africa for refusing to relinquish its hold on Namibia. In retaliation, South Africa has terminated its preferential trade agreement with Zimbabwe, withdrawn its loan of 24 locomotives and expelled thousands of Zimbabwean workers employed in South...