Word: diplomatized
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...good idea to get involved in trading for hostages." But the damage to America's image as a nation that stands up to terrorism has already been done. "It's going to be hard to make this stick after the Iran thing," conceded a senior U.S. diplomat. Indeed, the disappearance of Waite may have provided evidence of that. In the aftermath of the scandal over secret U.S. arms sales % in exchange for hostages, the temptation to seize and hold the Anglican envoy as a bargaining chip may have been too great for terrorists to resist...
Bradley H. Boyer '87, Director of Police and Security Paul E. Johnson, a detective, and a tunnel engineer escorted the diplomat to Adams House's Linden Street tunnel exit near the Harvard Lampoon...
Several weeks later, 200 students blockaded a South Africa diplomat whom the Conservative Club had invited to speak in Lowell House. The disciplinary cases for the two incidents resulted in 10 people put on probation and 11 students were admonished...
...Western diplomats in Moscow see two motives in Gorbachev's initiative. They believe that the Kremlin would like to limit defections by giving artists enough freedom to make it unnecessary for them to flee the country. Rules governing travel abroad for artists and intellectuals are being relaxed, provided their trips are financed by foreign sources. Gorbachev would like to gain the trust of the Soviet intelligentsia, something no Soviet regime has enjoyed since Lenin. "He's giving them a little more room to work," said one diplomat, "and in return he will expect their help in his foreign and economic...
...Austria. Along the snowbound, 170-mile highway linking Budapest with Vienna, more than 130 cars were immobilized for up to 18 hours until Soviet, Hungarian and Austrian tanks dug them out. One of the liberated motorists was Austria's Ambassador to Hungary, Arthur Agstner. Declared the grateful diplomat: "If the Soviet tanks had not arrived in time, several of us could have frozen to death...