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...where-and how-were the other hostages? After the Tehran films had been transmitted, the Iranians televised a Tehran press conference with Algerian Ambassador Abdelkarim Gheraieb. His words were the most comforting yet. He said he and another Algerian diplomat had seen all 52 of the hostages and "found them all in good health." In Washington, the State Department revealed that it was to receive a more detailed report from the Ambassador when he arrived in the U.S. over the weekend. On a holiday vacation in Plains, Ga., President Carter said of the hostages: "They all seem quite well...
...appointment was generally applauded overseas. Said a senior British diplomat: "Haig was Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington's first choice. He is in our view a highly intelligent, clear-headed and able man." Added a top-ranking foreign policy adviser in Bonn: "He is extremely well equipped for the job, and for us, it is especially gratifying that he knows well every important European personality." About the only dissent came, not surprisingly, from Moscow. An official with a worried expression groused: 'This won't help us improve things." Muttered another: 'Not good...
Rebellion is a natural outgrowth of the Polish character-ebullient, romantic, ready to defend national pride at the drop of a kapelusz, and ironic enough to look forward to a potent drink right afterward. Sums up a Polish woman: "We can only be compared with the Irish." A Western diplomat who has served in Poland puts it differently: "The Poles are a bunch of anarchists." That may be overstating matters, but it is true that the Poles bend less willingly to Soviet domination than any other satellite. The Catholic Church, which has nurtured the Polish spirit when outside powers have...
...Polish economy, in the words of a Western diplomat, is a "result-oriented system which unfortunately does not produce results...
...Burnham sympathizers and have urged Guyanese to boycott this week's vote. Since the government has excluded the new group from the ballot, Burnham's supporters are confident of a landslide victory. "These elections are not really for us," a member of the government told a Western diplomat last week. "They...