Word: diplomatic
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Joining the career diplomat are 253 other veteran civil servants and politicos who say they want to learn more about their jobs and role in society. They come annually to the Kennedy School of Government to study, "to network," and to earn a master's degree during the graduate school's yearlong mid-career program--the oldest and most successful of its kind...
...guess that's why some self-appointed shock troops of change found it acceptable to kidnap a visiting South African diplomat in a Lowell House room last spring to protest the University's investments in the diplomat's country...
After months of deliberation and more than 60 hours of testimony, the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR) placed 10 students on probation in October for blockading a South African diplomat in the Lowell House Junior Common Room last spring. The body also admonished 11 students for their peaceful sit-in at the 17 Quincy St. headquarters of Harvard's Governing Boards...
...voluminous report of the way the CRR viewed both incidents disclosed that police acted without University approval in forming "a human battering ram" to free the diplomat from the JCR. In response to student complaints that the police used excessive force at the demonstration, an investigative body found that, with one exception, the police did not act improperly in the confusing scene at Lowell House...
...Kissinger once understood so well." Skeptics at the U.S. State Department point out that the Soviet Union remains intransigent on its emigration policies. While 51,300 Soviet Jews were allowed to leave the country in 1979, only about 1,200 are expected to leave this year. And a Western diplomat in the Soviet Union insists that two weeks ago Bronfman met with Vadim Zagladin, a Central Committee functionary, and went away "empty-handed...