Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...keeping with their general moderate approach, activists are largely apologetic about the event that brought them the most criticism from administrators and the most attention both within and outside of the campus. Leaders of the movement say the temporary blockade last spring of a visiting South African diplomat in a Lowell House room was unplanned and the result of an uncontrollable crowd. They point to the rally and sit-in--both peaceful events--as the successes of the year...
Last spring, South African diplomat Abe Hoppenstein paid a visit to Harvard to give a talk to the Conservative Club, and in the process sparked an divestment protest and rally which turned unusually violent. Hoppenstein was asked by the College body charged with disciplining the students involved in the protest-turned-blockade to return to the scene of the alleged crime, not to talk politics, but to discuss his version of the incident, in which about 200 students blocked his exit from Lowell House. Hoppenstein, however, declined the invitation, saying that he did not "want to get involved in domestic...
...what they call the "three obstacles" to agreement: the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, Soviet assistance to the Vietnamese occupiers of Kampuchea, and the stationing of as many as 52 Soviet divisions on Chinese borders. Gorbachev has shown no signs of removing any of those obstacles. Says one senior Chinese diplomat: "I think because Gorbachev is more flexible, he will be harder to deal with." His meaning: Gorbachev is likely to combine hard-line positions with just enough concessions on minor matters, and just enough public relations flair, to make those positions appear more reasonable than in the past...
...appearances, interviews with adults on a children's cable TV program and, finally, to a part in an upcoming series, Lime Street, starring Robert Wagner. Smith was eulogized in Moscow as a champion of peace, and her funeral drew 1,000 mourners, including Wagner and Vladimir Kulagin, a Soviet diplomat who read a personal message of condolence from Party Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev...
Hellenbroich was replaced by Hans-Georg Wieck, 57, an experienced diplomat who has served since 1980 as West German ambassador to NATO. Wieck is highly respected in Western capitals, and his appointment was seen as an attempt by the Kohl government to regain the confidence of its Atlantic allies. Investigators have not yet determined whether Tiedge, who joined the OPC in 1966, had been working for the East Germans all along or had gone over to the other side only recently. Whatever the case, the damage was considerable. Tiedge was in a position to know the identities of East Germans...