Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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French arms sales are booming today. Following a decline in 1983, export orders more than doubled last year, to about $6.66 billion, a record, and this year's orders show promise. "The government's instructions to the defense sector are sell, sell, sell," says a Western diplomat. France is now the world's third largest arms dealer, behind the U.S. and the Soviet Union...
...doubled, to 8%; among Greek youth it is estimated to be around 28%. Foreign investment has dried up, local capital has fled the country, and despite European Community subsidies, Greece's foreign debt has risen to $12.5 billion, from $7.9 billion when Papandreou came to office. Says a Western diplomat: "Greece will have to cope with so many economic problems in the next few years that there will be no room for fantasy in diplomacy...
Gorbachev's overtures were clearly aimed at Western Europe. Some analysts assume that he is trying to encourage anti-Star Wars sentiment in member states of the Western alliance by linking missile reductions in Europe to abandonment of the U.S. space-weapons scheme. According to a West European diplomat in Moscow, Gorbachev may "try to separate at least parts of Europe from the U.S. on the subject of Star Wars...
...Harvard: discipline. The Faculty has reconstituted a Vietnam-era disciplinary body--the student-faculty Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR)--to punish some of the 200 students involved in an April sit-in at the headquarters of Harvard's Governing Boards and a blockade of a South African diplomat in a Lowell House room...
...leading cause of divorce, violent crime and accidental death. Soviet statistics also suggest that alcohol abuse is the main reason that male life expectancy, which is on the rise in all other industrialized nations, has dropped from 67 years to 62 over the past 20 years. Says a Western diplomat based in Moscow: "It's a tough problem, and I think (the Soviets) are trying to tackle it in an intelligent...