Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most Western analysts saw Suslov's trip as a gloves-off bid to stem the tide of Polish reform. "They don't send Mikhail Suslov to hand out flowers," said a European diplomatic analyst in Moscow. Added a senior Western diplomat: "I have no doubt that he read them the riot act." If that was in fact Moscow's message, then Suslov was the right mailman. Unsmiling and wraithlike behind dark-rimmed glasses, the 78-year-old party theorist has long been the Kremlin's chief "liquidator of deviationists," as one Western expert...
Since then, the guerrillas have changed their tactics, attacking lone U.P.C. officials or small groups of government soldiers. Diplomats believe that the two main groups-the Uganda Freedom Movement, composed mainly of Obote-hating Baganda tribesmen, and the People's Revolutionary Army led by ex-Defense Minister Yoweri Museveni-are biding their time until June. That is when the 10,000 Tanzanian troops who remained in Uganda after they helped to overthrow Amin in 1979 are scheduled to be withdrawn. Their departure will leave a dangerous power vacuum. Speculates a Western diplomat: "Any of three things could happen. Obote...
...Last year he noted that "if only views that echo the leadership are allowed, there is no way to speak of real freedom of speech." Though April Fifth Forum had a circulation of only 1,000 before publication was suspended early last year, it was, according to one Western diplomat, "a twinkle in a vast void." Thus the arrests of Xu and Yang further weakened an already anemic democratic movement. It has been on the retreat since Dissident Leader Wei Jingsheng was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment in October 1979, two months before the Democracy Wall was stripped clean...
...calibrated drive for greater party discipline and ideological conformity. China-watchers were reluctant to read more into the latest crackdown than an attempt by the party leadership to prevent liberalization from getting out of control while it determines the exact place Mao should have in history. Said one Western diplomat in Peking, paraphrasing the late Chairman: "This government may still believe that they should let a hundred flowers bloom, but they don't feel they want one hundred...
DIED. Wang Shih-chieh, 90, Nationalist Chinese lawyer, scholar and leading diplomat, who as Foreign Minister from 1945 to 1948 participated in the peace talks between Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Tse-tung; in Taipei...