Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...United States has ignored Lebanon for too long and must increase its support for the nation if it wants to regain its credibility in the Middle East, a former high-ranking Lebanese diplomat told a Harvard audience last night...
...should the U.S. elevate Lebanon to significant importance by creating a foreign policy?" asked Wadi Haddad, the Lebanese diplomat, as he opened his remarks...
...looks like this, too, is aimed across the [Berlin] Wall at the West Europeans," said one Western diplomat, who spoke on the condition that he not be identified...
...main reason for his embrace of the Soviets is U.S. support for Israel. Gaddafi is obsessed with wiping Israel off the map, and he is convinced that only America stands in his way. "Gaddafi believes that without the U.S., Israel could not continue to exist," says one Western diplomat. "He believes that the U.S. is being very unfair to the Arabs and that it is his duty as standard-bearer of the Arab cause to continually challenge Washington." Like the Ayatullah Khomeini, he sees Washington as the focus of evil on the planet and regards the U.S., not Israel...
...provocative public statements that have become common in recent weeks and, instead, a reliance on communications through the Soviet embassy in Washington and the U.S. embassy in Moscow. Until a replacement for Dobrynin is named, Shultz will deal with the Soviet charge d'affaires, Oleg Sokolov, an experienced diplomat who was also a key player at Geneva. After the Shevardnadze visit in mid-May, Shultz will probably return the call in Moscow by late June. These meetings, in the words of one senior U.S. official, are intended "to force a sense of deadlines on everyone...