Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...small victory in a larger war with no end yet in sight. Late last week another skirmish in that war may have taken place. In | Beirut, the Shi'ite terrorist group known as Islamic Jihad distributed blurred photographs purporting to show the body of U.S. Diplomat William Buckley, kidnaped 18 months ago. The State Department was skeptical of the claim...
Surprisingly, the U.S. ploy worked. When the Achille Lauro tried to enter Syrian waters near Tartus, the Syrians turned it away. Cyprus also refused to allow the ship into port. Said a senior U.S. diplomat in Washington: "Everyone had been sensitized. It wasn't so much a matter of U.S. pressure as the fact that no one wanted these pirates on their hands." The Achille Lauro had little choice but to turn back toward Egypt's Port Said...
...punishment. The U.S., frustrated that terrorists have so easily escaped retribution in the past, put great emphasis on the issue. The Italians were less insistent, perhaps because they had more lives and property at stake. For the Egyptians, the punishment issue posed a difficult dilemma. Said a senior U.S. diplomat in Washington: "We were fighting Egypt...
...following 18 students faced charges from the CRR for their involvement in two spring anti-apartheid protests--the April 24 sit-in at the 17 Quincy St. headquarters of Harvard's governing boards and the May 2 blockade of a South African diplomat in the Lowell House Junior Common Room. The CRR yesterday served 10 students with a suspended requirement to withdraw from the University for their actions at Lowell House, and formally admonshed the 11 students charged with participation in the 17 Quincy St. sit-in. NAME PUNISHMENT Anthony A. Ball '86 Admonition for 17 Quincy; Suspended Requirement...
...Botha's Durban speech failed to live up to its advance billing remains a subject of intense speculation. The initial explanation was that there had been a right-wing rebellion within his Cabinet. Diplomats, businessmen and journalists reject that theory, however, noting that the high-level officials who previewed the speech stressed that it had already been approved by a special Cabinet committee. One top official told TIME that the reforms would become "government policy" unless Botha himself revised the draft. South Africans suggest three more plausible explanations. Botha may have changed his mind at the last minute...