Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prominent Swedish diplomat and a U.S. Congressman yesterday attacked the Reagan Administration's Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) and instead called for nuclear arms control, in a symposium entitled "International Relations in an Interdependent World: A Look at Ends and Means...
Many officials were quick to criticize Gorbachev's overtures as transparent public relations stunts. "It's one more chance for Gorbachev to try to make the Soviet Union look like it's pursuing peace," said a Western diplomat, "while the White House goes on endangering the world." But the Soviets' campaign has been effective, particularly in Western Europe (with the notable exception of France), and some analysts think the U.S. should be more flexible. Former Defense Secretary James Schlesinger faults the Administration for "losing the initiative" in the arms-control game. He suggests that the U.S. resist a complete moratorium...
...appears ready to move. The Soviets have said that they are "encouraged" by Reagan's letter, and have refrained from public sniping. They have agreed to 13 new educational, scientific and cultural exchanges, following the successful U.S. tour of the Kirov Ballet this summer. All together, says a Western diplomat, "we are satisfied that this glacier is beginning to move...
...parties--are unmistakably Sally Quinn's turf. Hostesses are grasping, Senators calculating, and just about everybody randy. "It's a novel about Washington," Quinn explains. "There are so many living and breathing cliches walking around this town that you sort of have to put them in." An amorous Arab diplomat gives a blond reporter a Mercedes. Before the Shah fell, it was rumored that Iranian Ambassador Ardeshir Zahedi had offered Quinn one. "It never happened, but some papers reported that it did," says Quinn, "so I put it in the book...
Apparently under pressure from Syrian President Hafez Assad, Jihad last year freed another American, the Rev. Benjamin Weir, but claimed that William Buckley, a U.S. diplomat, had been killed to avenge an Israeli air raid on Palestine Liberation Organization headquarters in Tunisia. Buckley's death remains unconfirmed. In April another American captive, Librarian Peter Kilburn, and two Britons were killed in retaliation for the U.S. air attack on Libya. That leaves three American hostages: Anderson, 38, an Associated Press correspondent; David Jacobsen, 55, director of the American University Hospital in Beirut; and Thomas Sutherland, 55, the university's acting dean...