Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meanwhile, a Soviet diplomat called at the Foreign Office in Tokyo and claimed for Moscow whatever treasure was found; his stand was backed by Kyushu University's Hideo Takabayashi, a professor of international law. Abandoned warships, said Takabayashi, unlike abandoned merchantmen, continue to belong to the governments whose flag they once flew. Not so, said the Japanese Foreign Office. The find, it held, belonged to neither the Soviet nor the Japanese government...
...biggest refineries in the world (587,000 bbl.-per-day capacity) and the principal source of fuel for Iran's domestic needs, flames and smoke shot skyward. "There are going to be a lot of cold Iranians this winter as a result," said a U.S. diplomat monitoring the fighting. In Tehran, the government decreed that no gasoline would be sold to private motorists for at least a week...
...some who have watched him at first hand, Saddam projects a dual personality. Says a Western diplomat: "You think he's the most brutal of the brutal, and then there he is in the market fondling babies. It's really quite amazing." On tour, he loves to hand out wads of freshly minted bank notes to astonished villagers, and one of his pet schemes is to see that everyone under 45 becomes literate. Typically, however, there is no free choice about it: those who do not go to class are fined or jailed. In 1963 he married...
...stereotypical boisterous Nigerian politician. But when the former school-teacher speaks, people listen. The reason: he is the leader of a country that boasts Africa's biggest population (90 million), largest standing army (130,000) and a G.N.P. of more than $50 billion. As one African diplomat puts it, "Whenever there is an important African issue, everyone waits to see what Nigeria decides. You can oppose it, but you must always take it into account...
...talked into changing. There must be boycotts of all dealings with it." In order to persuade the U.S. and other Western nations to cut their trade ties with South Africa, Shagari warns, "I cannot rule out using our oil or anything else." Washington gets the point. Says one U.S. diplomat: "If they ever thought we were backing off from our commitment to majority rule, I have no doubt that Nigeria would cut off oil shipments...