Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bourguiba ensured that the pressure on dissenters will continue when he abruptly sacked his Prime Minister and replaced him with Interior Minister Zine al Abidine ben Ali, who has led the crackdown on the fundamentalists. "You will not see any steps toward greater pluralism now," / commented one worried Western diplomat. Indeed, Bourguiba has knocked out his opposition so effectively that many fear there is now no credible successor, and that when he dies the radical fundamentalists will leap to fill the political void...
Last week Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett'57 announced that he would schedule College-widediscussions on similar issues. Jewett said that hethought of the forum in response to thecancellation of a South African diplomat's speechlast spring after protestors attempted to blockadetwo of the three exits in the auditorium where hewas speaking...
HARVARD OFFICIALS have displayed this readiness to cancel events in the face of minor incidents several times, most notably during the Kent-Brown incident last year, when several Harvard students attempted a blockade during the South African diplomat's speech. Harvard Police rushed Kent-Brown out of the room as the blockade formed, and Dean Epps ended the speech without an attempt to negotiate with the protestors--even though the students presented no physical threat to the speaker and had left the front entrance to the auditorium clear...
Besides being an accomplished scientist and administrator, Sagdeyev is the Soviet Union's chief space diplomat. He spent more than two weeks in August flying from the U.S.S.R. to Hawaii, New York and Washington to recruit scientists for Soviet missions and to publicize Moscow's space program. His dizzying schedule of speeches, meetings and interviews has forced him to all but abandon his dacha outside Moscow and even his burning passion, chess. In recognition of his achievements at the Soviet Space Institute (IKI), he was chosen to head the Soviets' new Supercomputing Institute and was appointed as Soviet Leader Mikhail...
...past and no one wrote about them," said Alexander Zigic, 23, a Belgrade University student who works on a popular youth radio program. "This is a new openness and accountability. It is a kind of democratization." The question is whether it is coming too late. Said a Western diplomat in Belgrade: "This is perhaps Yugoslavia's last chance to get its economic house in order. If it doesn't, things will get worse and worse and worse...