Word: diplomatized
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...Without Viet Nam, the Soviet navy has no naval base from Yemen to Vladivostok," says Philippe Richer, French Ambassador to Hanoi in 1975 and 1976. "With their ships in Cam Ranh Bay and their air force in Danang, the Soviets can patrol most of the South Pacific." One Vietnamese diplomat candidly admits that his country turned to the Soviets in the first place only because Hanoi considers the Chinese even less trustworthy. Says he: "We needed help, and the Soviets were the safest ones to take it from...
Leslie H. Brown '48, a career diplomat was hired March 22, following the recommendation of a search committee headed by CFIA Executive Director Chester D. Haskell. He will assumed the new post July...
...damaged platforms would be treated as military targets. Iranian officials say they had offered Texan Red Adair, the world's best-known oil troubleshooter, $1 million to supervise a repair effort, but that he refused to work under war-time conditions. The immense slick developed, says a Western diplomat in Bahrain, because "no one will go out there and cap a well unless he's sure he is not going to be shot...
...Iranians charged that the Iraqis secretly hope to turn any temporary cease-fire into a formal end to the war. Iran also demanded that Iraq admit culpability for the March attack on the oil wells. Iraq refused, arguing that the bombing had been an accident. Said a frustrated Western diplomat: "Who cares if it is called a cease-fire or safe passage or what? The point is to stop the spillage and clean up the mess...
...split Iraq from Saudi Arabia and the smaller gulf states, which have funneled hundreds of millions of dollars into the Iraqi war effort. If such hopes are being nurtured in the Iranian capital of Tehran, they are unrealistic. Both sides in the Iran-Iraq war are, as a Western diplomat puts it, "obsessed with getting the maximum military and propaganda advantage" from the spill. Under the shadow of such rampant obstructionism, the nations of the gulf seem doomed to deal with an ever more visible oil glut...