Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...White House last week, presidential staff members gathered on the lawn and crowded onto the balconies of the adjacent old Executive Office Building. The occasion had all the drama of a summit conference, and, in a sense, that is what it was: Senator Edward Kennedy, wearing a diplomat's dark blue suit, had come calling on President Jimmy Carter. For the first time in their bitter, seven-month contest for the Democratic presidential nomination, the candidates were meeting face to face...
Allen is traveling in Europe this week, seeking to reassure allied officials about Reagan. He is likely to encounter considerable skepticism. A senior West German diplomat says that his government, while nearly fed up with the Carter Administration's blunders and mixed signals, is "apprehensive, to put it mildly," about the G.O.P. leader. He adds: "He will find us extremely reluctant to rush headlong with him into a new cold war." Reagan has stated that one of his first items of business will be to deploy the neutron bomb in Western Europe, but the West Germans and other NATO...
...other quarters renewed efforts to win the release of the hostages came to naught. A ruling by the International Court of Justice at The Hague that Iran was violating international law and "must immediately terminate the unlawful detention" was called meaningless by Tehran. Syrian Diplomat Adib Daoudy, a member of the short-lived U.N. commission that had been formed to investigate the former Shah's reign, traveled to Tehran to lobby for a revival of that initiative on behalf of U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim...
...group of Latin American writers who have profoundly influenced the policies of their nations, Paz is a poet, essayist, diplomat, critic and professor. Sixteen years in Mexico's diplomatic service gave the 66-year-old Paz the chance he needed to begin writing. Today, as countryman and novelist Carlos Fuentes has labelled him, Paz is "the greatest living Mexican writer, a great renovator of the Spanish language, a great universal poet and essayist...
Muhammad Ali, philosopher, diplomat and three-time world heavyweight champion, will speak on "The Intoxications of Life" at Sanders Theater Saturday morning in a Class of 1975 symposium...