Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some of those without connections, the Sandinista explanation that the U.S. is the cause of everything that goes wrong in Nicaragua is losing credibility. One possible sign of eroding popular support is that the "defense committee" system responsible for neighborhood surveillance and security is breaking down. A Western diplomat estimates that 50% to 60% of the population are what he calls "passively" anti-Sandinista, even if they have not yet drawn political conclusions from the economic squeeze. Says he: "If these people were Poles or U.S. citizens, they would be rioting in the streets. It may be they...
Despite his problems, Sankara is widely admired at home, in part because he has reformed the country's judicial system by introducing what he calls "people's courts." Says a Western diplomat in Ouagadougou: "He means it when he says he is for social justice for all." Sankara believes his goal of "two meals a day and safe drinking water" for all of Burkina Faso's people can be achieved. The main hope for economic development lies in the exploitation of natural resources, which include gold, copper and diamonds. One instance of Sankara's example-setting parsimony: when the electrical...
...Dean of the College John B Fox Jr '59, after the May 2 blockade of a South African diplomat in Lowell House...
...President Reagan's visit to the German war cemetery at Bitburg. But the Soviet ceremony stood in sharp contrast to the muted V-E day commemorations a day earlier* in Western Europe --and once again highlighted the antipathy that has grown among erstwhile allies. Said a senior Western diplomat in Moscow: "It has been very difficult for us to take the rewriting of history...
...University was present in an official capacity at the Lowell House meeting, this I think was a mistake on Harvard's party not because it lends dignity to South Africa, something nothing can do, but because it heaps shame on the college. Violence against the person of the diplomat, however, is at least as shameful...