Word: diplomatized
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...abandon the fight if U.S. funding is not renewed. Civilian leader Alfredo Cesar hopes to return to Nicaragua by early next year, some say to run as the opposition candidate in the 1990 presidential elections. But Cesar is not well known within Nicaragua, and the Sandinistas, warns one diplomat, may dismiss his effort as "a blinding irrelevance...
...were hollowing out the country's moral center. They called for greater discipline in the schools. Both wanted to get tough on crime. Both used their church network while trying to reach beyond it. Robertson presented himself as a corporate executive and university president; Jackson presented himself as a diplomat-negotiator who had brought back hostages, kept factories and farms from closing, and transcended racial divisions. Robertson gave us a right-wing populism that had shed the overt racism of George Wallace's campaigns. Jackson gave us a left-wing populism that had gone beyond the black base...
...degree, most of Europe embraces the notion that perestroika represents a golden opportunity to increase trade. But some Europeans hope to collect a bonus by inducing Western-style change in the Soviet political system. "If Gorbachev's reforms are to succeed," says a British diplomat, "they can only do so by making the Soviet Union a very different place." West German Foreign Minister Hans Dietrich Genscher, among the first to welcome Gorbachev's promised reforms, argues that the West would be negligent if it ignored the "historic opportunity" offered by the Soviet leader to turn his country into a more...
BREAK A LEG, MR. AMBASSADOR. William Walker, 53, had been ambassador to El Salvador only a few weeks when he decided to throw himself into his new job -- literally. Though he had no previous experience as a parachutist, the gung- ho diplomat recklessly accepted U.S. military trainers' assurances that a 10,000-ft. jump out of a C-130 would be a lot of fun. The Ambassador is now recuperating from multiple fractures...
...additional troops, including his own elite presidential guards. Largely because of Castro's move, South Africa backed off and resumed peace talks. Now Castro insists that his troops leave on Cuban ships and planes, not Soviet ones. "Fidel put everything on the line," says a U.S. diplomat. "He's determined to leave Angola with his head held high...