Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This is Franklin and Marshall's strongest team ever," Diplomat Head Coach Bill Marshall said. "Beating Harvard, especially at home, is a formidable challenge for us. Harvard has a great tradition, and a great team...
Even with continued U.S. aid, the contras are unlikely to "liberate" any Nicaraguan territory. Administration realists foresee at best a long campaign of guerrilla harassment; they warn that the contras' ability to continue the fight depends on their retaining sanctuaries in an increasingly nervous Honduras. Says an American diplomat: "Since the Iran business blew up, we have felt a definite increase in the Hondurans' eagerness to see the contras somewhere else -- either in Managua running the country or in New York and Los Angeles waiting on tables, but out of Honduras...
...racial situation in the United States remained "a sore burden to the entire nation" as Harvard moved into its fourth century, wrote Ralph J. Bunche. Bunche, who held both an A.M. and Ph.D. from Harvard in government, was the first Black recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. An eminent diplomat and organizer of the United Nations, Bunche taught briefly in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences during the early 1950s and later served as a Harvard Overseer between...
...reasons for freeing the couple. When Gorbachev phoned the Sakharovs in Gorky on Dec. 16 to invite them to return to Moscow, he offered few clues. "Gorbachev is a shrewd man, and we may not know yet how shrewd he may have been in this case," says a Western diplomat. "Even if Sakharov takes up where he left off, it is worth...
...Sakharov would undoubtedly lend credibility to Gorbachev's fight to scuttle U.S. plans to develop a space-based missile- defense system, or Strategic Defense Initiative. Western analysts say the teaming of Gorbachev and Sakharov on this issue is not farfetched, given their mutual commitment to arms control. Observes a diplomat: "Judging by what Sakharov has said and written in the past, he would be against SDI if he expressed an opinion...