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Doing it for Washington, in fact, was very much the theme at the Luxembourg meeting. Few if any of the allied officials expect diplomatic or economic sanctions to persuade the unpredictable and often irrational Iranians to give up their prisoners. Said a senior British diplomat: "We don't like sanctions and very much doubt their effectiveness. But we felt that it was our clear duty to support the President." A ranking West German Foreign Ministry official said, "Carter ought to be satisfied with his allies...
...standing proposal for the neutralization of Afghanistan. He spurned a specific French request to spell out a timetable for Soviet withdrawal. Overall, he made it bluntly clear that Moscow does not consider its continued occupation to be any of Western Europe's business. Posing with the Soviet diplomat for French television cameras, Giscard appeared stern and somber...
Although she was a novice in world affairs, the triumph of her first year was a foreign policy feat. Britain, to great acclaim, ended the seven-year-old Rhodesian civil war and brought majority rule to Zimbabwe in free and surprisingly fair elections. Observes an acerbic old-line British diplomat: "In foreign policy she has proved to be very wise by leaving it to [Foreign Secretary Lord] Carrington. But he couldn't have done it without her backing." Not coincidentally, Thatcher's worst performance came when Carrington, preoccupied with Rhodesia, was away from her side. At the European...
...neighboring Ghana last year, Doe has a flair for the dramatic. During his first TV address as head of state, he wore sunglasses and a well-pressed fatigue uniform with a hand grenade dangling from one pocket. Newly installed in the executive mansion, Doe summoned the ranking U.S. diplomat, Chargé d'Affaires Julius Walker, and sent his new Foreign Minister, former Opposition Leader Gabriel Baccus Matthews, together with a contingent of troops, to get him. Matthews showed up still dressed in the tattered shorts he had been wearing when released from jail only a few hours before...
...latest hysterical outburst in Iran, where sometimes nobody seems to be in charge, and sometimes everybody, worsened Jimmy Carter's problem. Talleyrand, the 19th century French diplomat, cautioned against "too much zeal." But how to deal with a nation of zealots, who do not play by the rules of law, who do not or cannot keep their promises, who seem more inclined to martyrdom than to statecraft...