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Such tensions have affected the diplomatic corps during a period of radical internal change. Privately, some veteran diplomats complain that admission standards to the Foreign Service have been lowered in order to allow easier entry for women and minorities. Beyond that, says A.F.S.A. President Kenneth Bleakely, a career diplomat himself, "the whole concept of the Foreign Service is under assault." A few decades ago, many aspects of U.S. policy toward a specific country were often set by the American ambassador and his staff on the scene. Today even low-level decisions are made in Washington-with or without the concurrence...
Ghotbzadeh quickly cautioned against assuming that the release of the hostages was imminent. "You are jumping too far ahead," he told reporters. Nonetheless, as a Western diplomat in Tehran noted, "Once the hostages are in responsible hands, a big obstacle to a final settlement of the dispute will have been removed." In Washington, the White House and the State Department remained uncomfortably silent, as if they feared that the slightest American enthusiasm could wreck the deal. They were weary from reacting to all the contradictory stop-and-go signals that have characterized the crisis and were waiting for a sure...
...readers. Reporting Carter's reversal, Saudi Arabia's state-controlled radio said acidly: "May God have mercy on his soul." The Kuwait daily Al-Anba called the President "a coward and a puppet in the hands of Israel." "Instant amateurism," snapped a British diplomat. A German colleague described the "incredible flip-flopping" as "intolerable...
...President's handling of the Olympic boycott. Administration officials had first told West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt that a boycott was not being considered. Carter changed his mind, and Bonn was given only two hours' notice before the boycott was announced. Said a West German diplomat of last week's Security Council debacle: "The U.N. flip-flop is just one more piece of evidence to support Schmidt's contention that West Europeans must look out for themselves, and protect themselves as much as possible against the effect of these Carter fiascoes...
...than objectives. Nonetheless, the result has been a closer relationship between Bonn and Paris, culminating in the Schmidt-Giscard summit in the French capital last month. As a Bonn official put it, both men "felt strongly that they had to protect Western Europe's interests." Said a French diplomat in West Germany: "The Soviets horribly miscalculated in Afghanistan. Carter reacted too rashly. Schmidt and Giscard are the fellows who are trying to keep a cool head...