Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...SIEGE: THE SAGA OF ISRAEL AND ZIONISM by Conor Cruise O'Brien. The diplomat and journalist gives an informed and balanced account of the long and seemingly endless tragedy of Middle East politics...
...meantime, the impact of the region's fierce factionalism was once again being felt in unstable Lebanon. On Christmas Day a Libyan diplomat based in neighboring Syria, Mosbah Mohammed Gharibi, was killed in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley when gunmen raked his car with machine-gun fire. The Bekaa is a ! stronghold of Lebanese Shi'ites who still blame Libyan Leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi for the 1978 disappearance and possible murder of their spiritual leader, Imam Moussa Sadr. The assumption in Beirut was that the diplomat's killing was the latest in a series of retaliatory strikes by the Lebanese...
Students block a South African diplomat from leaving the Lowell House Junior Common Room where he had been speaking. Police break through the blockade, injuring some students, but do not arrest the activists. Protesters later face disciplinary proceedings...
...seems likely to be paralyzed as well. Moderate Arab nations friendly to the U.S. feel betrayed by the Administration's arms sales to Iran, a nation they fear because of its potential -- and unconcealed desire -- to stir up Islamic fundamentalist revolution outside its own borders. Says one veteran Arab diplomat in Cairo: "This Reaganite crisis will incapacitate the Administration. I am very much afraid we will have to wait two years (that is, until Reagan's successor is elected) before the U.S. can play a major role in the region...
...West Berlin verdict and the subsequent sanctions may not be the end of international embarrassment for Damascus. A Turkish court has reportedly issued an arrest warrant for a Syrian diplomat accused of ordering the murder of a Jordanian diplomat in 1985. In addition, Austrian and Italian authorities investigating last December's airport massacres in Vienna and Rome are seeking indications of Syrian involvement...