Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...desert who is destined to restore Arabs to their lost glory. In his fevered imagination, he expects to succeed in the destruction of Israel and the continued harassment of its principal sponsor, the U.S. "It is too easy and simplistic to dismiss Gaddafi as mad," said a Western diplomat in Tripoli. "He genuinely believes the cause is just, so there's no deflecting him. He'll pursue his fight with the U.S. until he dies...
...first of those incidents, 45 students took over the 17 Quincy St. headquarters of Harvard's governing Corporation. Later in the term, activists blockaded a South African diplomat inside Lowell House, where he was speaking to a closed meeting of the Conservative Club...
Reagan's special envoy to the region, Philip Habib, has insisted that privately most of these governments, as well as those of Nicaragua's immediate neighbors, support the U.S. policy. They cannot say so publicly, he asserts, for fear of provoking the Sandinistas. In their hearts, says another Western diplomat in the region, most Central American leaders "wish the Sandinistas would disappear...
Jean-Bernard Raimond, 60, a respected career diplomat who has been serving as French Ambassador to Moscow, received the Foreign Affairs portfolio...
...last week in the English-language China Daily, widely regarded as one of Chinese Leader Deng Xiaoping's main conduits for sending messages to Western powers. "Anyone reading that article would think that the U.S. is an equal threat to them and to world peace," said one dismayed Western diplomat. Whatever the reasons, Peking seemed to be putting the U.S. on notice that its most-favored-superpower status cannot be taken for granted...