Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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LONDON--A newspaper reported yesterday that an undercover Syrian agent worked as a clerk for 20 years in the British Embassy in Damascus and tricked a diplomat there into signing a visa for Nezar Hindawi...
...they were putting pressure on the U.S. to make or break the deal. Either way Gorbachev could not lose. Some experts even say Gorbachev was counting on the talks collapsing over Reagan's insistence on Star Wars. "They banked on Reagan's theological commitment to SDI," says one Western diplomat in Moscow. "Now they are behaving as if to say to the Americans...
...THUNDEROUS world applause Neville Chamberlain walked away from a summit conference in Munich with Adolph Hitler, having reached a non-aggression pact with the threatening Nazi power. He was hailed in Britain and across Europe as a diplomat of unsurpassed greatness, one who could bargain with and control even the world's greatest menace without risking the atrocities of the first world...
Some hard-line factions are not interested in deeds or words. They are apparently convinced that Gorbachev should hunker down and wait until Reagan gallops off into the sunset. "Many in the leadership believe (a second summit) is not in the Soviet interest," says a Western diplomat. "Many here believe it is impossible to do business with Reagan...
...same as the C.S.P.P.A., Abdallah is serving a four-year term on charges of possessing weapons and false identification. Last week the Chirac government recommended that Abdallah be tried on charges of complicity in the 1982 slayings in Paris of a U.S. military attache and an Israeli diplomat...