Word: diplomatized
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...Lebanon, he has not yet reacted to the American military presence there. The Soviets also note that they have refrained from giving full support to Central American liberation movements and from directly invading Poland. "Their policy is still oriented toward a relationship with America," Bialer feels. A senior Western diplomat in Moscow agrees: "Some Soviet spokesmen have portrayed the relationship as hopeless, but that is not their real thinking...
...cautious, even ponderous style served him well in private sessions. Unlike his frenetic predecessor Alexander Haig, who sometimes had staffers burst into meetings with important cables, Shultz listens intently to his guests and responds slowly and softly. "He is rocklike," says an aide. In the assessment of one French diplomat, "he appears bien dans sa peau, self-confident." This reassuring style, more than anything else, showed that U.S. foreign policy, although not on a perfect course, has a steadier hand on the tiller. - By Walter Isaacson. Reported by Gregory H. Wierzynski/United Nations
...wore on, the sounds of violence from the camps became more sporadic. In the afternoon, the militiamen began covering up their handiwork. Around 3 p.m., a European diplomat saw a bulldozer backing down a side street of Shatila. Its scoop was filled with bodies...
More serious was an Israeli intrusion into the compound of the Soviet embassy in West Beirut. According to a Soviet diplomat, several Israelis entered the compound Wednesday evening, demanding to know if there were any terrorists inside. Said the Soviet diplomat: "We told them this is an embassy; we have diplomats here, not terrorists." He said the Israelis left Friday, after Western reporters arrived to question their presence. "They were afraid of journalists," the Soviet official added. An Israeli military spokesman claimed that several Israeli soldiers had simply taken cover behind the wall surrounding the embassy compound. But independent sources...
...hard pressed for space is the government's repressive apparatus that it has turned the U.S. embassy into a detention center and execution site. Says a Western diplomat who lives close to the former embassy compound: "At night, you are shocked out of sleep by rifle shots and the cries of people being executed." Iranians living in the area also complain of the horrifying sounds. Says a housewife: "We think the Islamic Guards shoot their victims in the embassy in a way that makes them die slowly and painfully. The screams are unbearable...