Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...East-West terms. Yet the leaders Reagan has met during the past few weeks -from Britain, France, West Germany, Canada-have agendas that involve a more complex approach to world issues, all of which will need to be coped with. Reagan is far from an assured and polished diplomat, but last week he showed that his charm, and willingness to listen, is appreciated by America's friends and neighbors. He also learned, in his partly successful attempts at coordinating U.S. policy with America's allies, that even the most loyal friends often do not see world issues...
...crushed an uprising of Polish students and used the opportunity to advance his own nationalist faction through a purge of Jewish Communists. Could the revival of anti-Semitic rhetoric signal a new bid for power by the wily general? "It's a good bet," noted a West German diplomat. "This could have been a Moczar trial balloon...
...picked out three American passengers on board and labeled them "CIA agents."* They threatened to shoot them first, then blow up the plane, if the Pakistani government did not release 55 political activists from prison. Their threat was all the more credible because they had already shot a Pakistani diplomat aboard the plane and dumped his body on the Kabul airport runway...
...frequently threatened a cutoff of aid to foreign governments accused of trampling on human rights. But Reagan last month lifted economic sanctions, which had been imposed on Chile when the Pinochet regime refused to cooperate in an investigation into the outrageous assassination in Washington, B.C., of former Chilean Diplomat Orlando Letelier. Earlier Reagan welcomed to the White House Chun Doo Hwan, President of South Korea, a nation deservedly criticized by Carter policymakers for its human rights violations...
...easy man to judge; he sends out too many unexpected signals. Try as he may, he does not look like a diplomat. The stripes on his gray suit are a shade too bold, while his tassled loafers, the gold I.D. bracelet (A.M. HAIG) on his right wrist, his barrel chest and the piercing stare from his blue eyes all bespeak the general