Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...result, many Israelis have apparently lost the incentive to work hard at home. An Israeli diplomat in New York City believes that material goals were not always so important to Israelis. "We used to have a simple formula: Israel would not exist without the Jews. This was our motivation and it made our country strong. But in Israel now, people work an eight-hour day and complain like hell. On the other hand, Israelis in the U.S. work for twelve, 14, even 16 hours a day without complaining. It's obvious we've failed somewhere along the line...
...overall complaint, the Soviets say the Carter Administration has been guilty of "vacillation and inconsistency," of shifting policies and switching signals. "The present leadership in Washington has never adopted one line to which we could adjust or respond," says a Soviet diplomat, echoing a view shared by many critics of the Administration in Western Europe and the U.S. The Soviets are especially bitter over one shift in Carter's policy. They say he deliberately tricked the U.S.S.R. into thinking that it might be a diplomatic partner in the Middle East. In the fall of 1977, a joint U.S.-Soviet statement...
...every KGB spy abroad there are five working within the Soviet Union. The Second and Fifth Chief Directorates employ an estimated 50,000 to 100,000 agents who are responsible for domestic security, including operatives assigned to the surveillance of dissidents, foreign students, journalists and diplomats in the U.S.S.R. American security officers who searched the residence of one U.S. diplomat in Moscow in 1978 found 42 microphones...
...gaps left in the inefficient Soviet system, eases shortages and makes consumers' lives bearable. Collective-farm managers admit that often the only way to meet their production targets is to buy supplies on the black market. "If they tried to shut down every illegal activity," says one Western diplomat in Moscow, "the economy would come close to collapsing and the party would face serious problems of public disorder." The underground economy is nowhere to be found in the theories of Marx or Lenin, but it has become an integral part of Soviet society today...
Color is a commandment taken literally by the seasoned corps of hardnosed reporters that hold high the Henry Luce standard. The June 16 issue, for example, includes in its lead story the following information: Ted Kennedy travelled in a "long, black Lincoln Continental" wearing a "diplomat's dark blue suit." He made his decision to stay in the presidential race "after several hours of discussion with a break for sandwiches...