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Most Western analysts saw Suslov's trip as a gloves-off bid to stem the tide of Polish reform. "They don't send Mikhail Suslov to hand out flowers," said a European diplomatic analyst in Moscow. Added a senior Western diplomat: "I have no doubt that he read them the riot act." If that was in fact Moscow's message, then Suslov was the right mailman. Unsmiling and wraithlike behind dark-rimmed glasses, the 78-year-old party theorist has long been the Kremlin's chief "liquidator of deviationists," as one Western expert...
Since then, the guerrillas have changed their tactics, attacking lone U.P.C. officials or small groups of government soldiers. Diplomats believe that the two main groups-the Uganda Freedom Movement, composed mainly of Obote-hating Baganda tribesmen, and the People's Revolutionary Army led by ex-Defense Minister Yoweri Museveni-are biding their time until June. That is when the 10,000 Tanzanian troops who remained in Uganda after they helped to overthrow Amin in 1979 are scheduled to be withdrawn. Their departure will leave a dangerous power vacuum. Speculates a Western diplomat: "Any of three things could happen. Obote...
...Last year he noted that "if only views that echo the leadership are allowed, there is no way to speak of real freedom of speech." Though April Fifth Forum had a circulation of only 1,000 before publication was suspended early last year, it was, according to one Western diplomat, "a twinkle in a vast void." Thus the arrests of Xu and Yang further weakened an already anemic democratic movement. It has been on the retreat since Dissident Leader Wei Jingsheng was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment in October 1979, two months before the Democracy Wall was stripped clean...
...than that of any other country except Japan. Slums are rare. The world's most ambitious nuclear energy program is well under way, making France the only nation in Western Europe capable of reducing significantly its dependence on ever costlier oil. "The country looks good," says a Western diplomat in Paris. "The quality of life is marvelous...
...inauguration On one occasion he invited a group of Paris garbage men to the Elysée Palace for breakfast. Such superficial tokens of change may have pleased the young but they were too much for tradition-minded Frenchmen who greeted the new style with ridicule. Explains a Western diplomat in Paris: "The French don't want a Jimmy Carter-like President." Wounded Giscard dropped his experiments and withdrew to the dignity of his office...