Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...counterweight to the regimes in Syria and Iraq, with whom they are united only by their opposition to Israel. Both Syria's President Hafez Assad and Jordan's King Hussein are vulnerable to the kind of Muslim fanaticism that brought down Iran and troubles Egypt. As one Western diplomat said of Assad and Hussein, "They won't be reviewing military parades for a while...
...begin talks on reducing each side's medium-range nuclear missiles in Europe. The U.S. team will be headed by Paul Nitze, a notable anti-Soviet hardliner who helped negotiate SALT I in 1972; the chief Soviet spokesman will be U.A. Kvitsinsky, a career diplomat with no particular expertise in arms-control talks. The negotiations were long expected: in return for persuading its NATO allies in 1979 to base 572 Pershing II and cruise missiles on European soil as a deterrent to the Soviet arsenal of mobile, multiwarhead SS-20 missiles, Washington pledged to start discussions with Moscow...
...waterway long disputed by the two neighboring countries that runs into the Persian Gulf. The Iraqis failed in this objective and everyone has suffered. Now the Shatt al Arab is useless to both countries; some 70 ships have been trapped in the waters by the fighting. As one Iranian diplomat sums up the situation: "There is no end to this crazy...
...little country had been left vulnerable by independence. Opposition politicians went so far as to protest the new status and boycott the independence ceremonies. But Prime Minister Price, 62, carried his country along, just as he has dominated it since Britain granted Belize self-rule in 1964. Says one diplomat: "He certainly knows how to use the levers of power." A onetime Roman Catholic seminarian, Price led the struggle for independence after his political party was founded in 1950. In 1958 he was tried for sedition by the British and found innocent. Despite the doubters, Price is convinced that...
...headier days. Though the journals were crudely mimeographed publications with readerships of at most a few hundred each, they were formally banned by the Party Central Committee in February. "The conservatives in the military and in the security apparatus just couldn't stand the underground papers," says one diplomat who is based in Peking. "They were determined to eradicate the dissident movement once and for all and, in this, they have been pretty successful...