Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization with links to the Chilean Communist Party." An armed leftist insurgency emerged in Chile only three years ago. Last month Chilean authorities claimed to have uncovered a huge arms cache that rebels had smuggled into the northern part of the country. A Washington diplomat says the finding of the weapons, together with the assassination attempt, indicates the leftists have decided "to up the ante...
...past several months, the Administration has been prodding the military government to make a credible move toward real democracy. Led by Ambassador Harry Barnes, a respected veteran diplomat, U.S. officials have been trying to convince Pinochet that his repressive policies only create new recruits for the armed left. Said one senior State Department official: "The best defense against extremism of left or right is support for democracy." Barnes has sought contact with the opposition and in July attended the funeral of a teenager killed during earlier demonstrations. Washington has now threatened to vote against any new multinational loans for economically...
...Factions, who is serving a four-year sentence in Lyons for illegally possessing weapons and false identity papers. Abdallah's fingerprints were also discovered in an apartment found to contain the Czech-made pistol used in the 1982 Paris killings of U.S. Military Attache Charles Robert Ray and Israeli Diplomat Yacov Barsimantov. French authorities, however, say they still lack sufficient evidence to try him in connection with those cases. Persistent rumors that the French might be considering his release have led the U.S to voice its opposition to such a move...
...sustain a veto, Reagan will need to pick up more than 20 votes in the Senate, where the sanctions bill passed by an overwhelming 84 to 14. The President hopes to win over some Senators by nominating Edward Perkins, a black career diplomat who is now U.S. envoy to Liberia, to be Ambassador to South Africa. Reagan is also counting on the European Community to implement milder measures. This week the twelve E.C. foreign ministers are scheduled to adopt a package of restrictions that would ban imports of South African coal, steel, iron ore and gold coins...
Georges, the suspected leader of a group called the Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Factions, is serving a four-year prison term for possession of arms and false papers. He also is charged with complicity in the murders of an American and an Israeli diplomat in Paris...