Word: go-between
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...Chinese Catholic go-between...
...Eugenia Charles, 61, was elected Prime Minister of all-black Dominica. Among those she defeated was a predecessor, Patrick John, 44, driven from office in 1979 after a BBC documentary charged that his plans for island industrialization included an oil refinery that would benefit South Africa. John's go-between was said to be Burnett-Alleyne, a convicted smuggler who once recruited mercenaries to invade Barbados. The Charles administration believes the ten Americans, who were apprehended with an arsenal of automatic weapons and plastic explosives, were to enforce a government takeover by John-in cahoots, perhaps, with the island...
...Serpiente, a bartender named Alfonso. The protagonist, Franz Hall, like most heroes of pulp thrillers, has a past to undo. Attracted more by the suicidal romance of risk than by the money he stands to make, he has wandered to Port Tropique in an existential daze, and becomes a go-between for ivory smugglers in an unnamed Latin American country under revolutionary siege. It's classic stuff. He spends a lot of time hanging around in picturesque cafes drinking Superiors waiting for the next rendezvous. He's cool and lonely and death-fixated. He daydreams of The Maltese Falcon...
Uncertainty also continued to dominate the delicate, submerged negotiations for the release of the 52 American hostages. An Algerian diplomatic team, which has been acting as go-between, arrived in Washington with a request from Iran for "clarifications." Presumably, these related to the legal obstacles that the U.S. faces in meeting two of Iran's four principal demands: canceling American claims against Iran and returning the late Shah's fortune. The other two demands-a promise not to interfere in Iranian affairs and the unfreezing of $13 billion in Iranian assets-are not thought to pose serious problems...
...subcommittee wanted to know why in November he had used the President's none too diplomatic brother as a go-between to arrange talks at the White House with the Libyans about the American hostages in Tehran. Brzezinski replied that at the time, the White House was desperately searching for help in any quarter to free the hostages. He felt that using Billy was worth a try since Arab societies tend to put blood ties above formal positions in government. In fact, after Brzezinski met with Ali Houderi, Libya's top diplomat in Washington, the Libyan government issued...