Word: diplomatized
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...predawn jogging of groups of Nicaraguan army soldiers near the city's Intercontinental Hotel. In the town of San Fernando, nearly 159 miles from the capital, the only sign of combat was a cornfield still ablaze as a result of fighting the day before. Said a U.S. diplomat in Washington: "They have clearly got a fighting situation on their hands. But they are hyping it beyond proportion...
...brains of the insurgency. Its job is to pass orders to the second staff, which in turn relays them to the contra commanders. The coordinator of the separate command group activities is said by the F.D.N. sources to be John Negroponte, U.S. Ambassador to Honduras. Says a Western diplomat: "His job is to keep the Hondurans in the game. He keeps them enthusiastic...
...move that took the diplomatic community by surprise, Gromyko was given the additional responsibilities of a First Deputy Premier. The veteran diplomat, who after 26 years in the post has come to personify Soviet foreign policy abroad, had been mentioned as a possible contender for the office of Soviet President, which is still vacant following Brezhnev's death. Instead, he will now assume a post on the governing Council of Ministers as one of three top deputies to Premier Nikolai Tikhonov...
...week full of confusing signs and portents, the concern about Andropov's health revived doubts about the stability of the Kremlin leadership in the post-Brezhnev era. Said a Western diplomat in Moscow: "The fact that Andropov could come out as a strong successor just a few days after Brezhnev's death gave a lot of people confidence that the leadership was functioning smoothly and that it had everything under control. If Andropov died tomorrow, does anyone think it would go as smoothly...
...countryside, farmers now sign contracts with a commune unit for a fixed quantity of produce to be sold to the state at the official price. Anything over the agreed-upon volume may be sold privately on the free market, and the farmer keeps the profit. Says a Western diplomat in Peking: "To all intents and purposes, collectivization is being abandoned...