Word: diplomatized
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...able to mask his feelings when the occasion calls for it. When French President Francois Mitterrand mentioned Soviet Dissident Andrei Sakharov during a state banquet in the Kremlin last June, Konstantin Chernenko and Andrei Gromyko looked annoyed, but Gorbachev betrayed no emotion. "He has great control," said a French diplomat. "He was the only one who did not show anything...
...Soviet leadership. His appetite for technical matters became obvious during his tour of an agricultural research center and an auto factory. During nearly 3 1/2 hours of talks with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Gorbachev spoke knowledgeably about arms control and East-West issues. Observed a Foreign Office diplomat: "It's nice to find a Soviet politician whose face moves. Even when he scowls, you know where you stand...
...over the past year have yet to be released. Still in the country are an estimated 1,400 Americans. The U.S. aircraft carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower and the guided- missile cruiser Mississippi were standing by off the Lebanese coast, prepared to carry out a larger evacuation. Observed a Western diplomat in Beirut: "We are moving into dangerous, uncharted areas. The violence is spiraling out of control...
Andropov also began the task of bringing new faces into the uppermost reaches of the bureaucracy, replacing 32 of the 157 regional party secretaries, often with younger men. That was only a small tremor in a shift that is still moving through the bureaucracy. According to a senior British diplomat, the largest turnover of local Communist officials in recent memory took place during biennial party committee elections between November 1983 and January 1984. Nonetheless, the pace of change remains slow, and most top officials in the Soviet bureaucracy are, like most Politburo members, in their...
According to one Western diplomat in Khartoum, "The arrests seem to represent a shift away from the extreme policies of the past toward an atmosphere of reconciliation." Whether the President's latest moves will calm the country, says a former government minister, "depends on what Nimeiri ; does next...