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...prepared to leave Lebanon, at the moment anyway. The most surprising aspect of the latest peace plan was that Syria's President Hafez Assad, after angrily rejecting an earlier Saudi proposal a week ago, had decided to go along with the four-point approach. As one Arab diplomat in Damascus noted, "Nothing happens in Syria without the man [Assad] saying so. If he says green, it's go. If he says red, it's stop. There are no amber lights in Syria...
Recent speakers have included Daniel P. Moynihan (D-N.Y.) and writer-diplomat Carlos Fuentes last year...
...dismissed Chernenko as a faceless bureaucrat who would always be everyone's second choice for the job. Now he was being seen as the last-gasp leader of a gerontocracy intent on keeping the younger generation from moving too quickly into the corridors of power. Said a Western diplomat in Moscow: "If Andropov had lasted another four months, I don't think Chernenko would have made...
...hammer-and-sickle flags above the Kremlin were raised again to full staff. Most dead Soviet leaders vanish quickly into history. It was not clear how much of Andropov's legacy would survive the transition. For the moment, the watchword appeared to be continuity. Said a senior British diplomat...
Though the trip was scarcely noticed at the time and is barely remembered, Chernenko has visited the U.S. One day in 1974, retired U.S. Diplomat Nathaniel Davis recalls, Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin called him at the State Department and asked whether he could bring around a "personal guest" from Moscow. The guest turned out to be Chernenko, who had come to Washington to see his daughter. She was then either an employee or, more likely, the wife of an employee of the Soviet embassy. Chernenko was interested in discussing the State Department's experience with computers in handling personnel matters...