Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...challenge to the P.L.O., which has long demanded total control of the West Bank. Should the P.L.O. fail to administrate effectively or to progress toward peace, Hussein in no way foreclosed a future role for Jordan. "It's the put-up-or-shut-up approach," said a Western diplomat in Amman...
...challenge by the longtime party boss, Julio Adolfo Rey Prendes. Although Duarte and the candidate are not on the best of terms, Rey Prendes' close ties to corrupt officials led the U.S. embassy to favor Chavez Mena. "It is almost like Duarte is already completely forgotten," says a European diplomat. "It is really quite chilling...
...streets -- a reference to protests that reached new peaks in June, when thousands of antigovernment demonstrators marched in Rangoon. Ne Win threatened to call out the army if protesters rallied again. If that happened, he warned, the "army will shoot straight, not up in the air." Said a Western diplomat in Rangoon: "That doesn't sound like a man resigning. That sounds like a man who is very much in control...
...front, war weariness began to grip Iran and military enlistments dropped sharply. The normal contingent of 300,000 baseeji (volunteers) attached to Iran's Revolutionary Guards has lately fallen off by one-third, according to Western estimates. "There's no heroism in it for the village boys," a Western diplomat in Tehran told TIME Correspondent David S. Jackson. "They're afraid of chemical weapons, and there's no chance of coming back covered in glory...
While La Prensa and Radio Catolica were being silenced, Foreign Minister Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann summoned U.S. Ambassador Richard Melton to his office. Melton, a career diplomat who arrived in Managua three months ago, listened as D'Escoto accused the U.S. embassy of fomenting unrest and then gave the Ambassador and seven other U.S. diplomats three days to leave the country...