Word: standoffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thus ended the so-called war of the embassies, the diplomatic standoff in which the French diplomat and the Iranian interpreter were held for five months as virtual prisoners in their embassies. Only 48 hours before the . exchange, Premier Jacques Chirac's government had won the release of two French hostages in Beirut...
Meanwhile, the Administration won at least a symbolic victory in its efforts to persuade West Germany to spur its economy. The standoff between Baker and his West German counterpart, Finance Minister Gerhard Stoltenberg, eased slightly, aided by an announcement from the German central bank that it would cut two of its less important interest rates. If Bonn were to follow up * on that step and reduce its prime interest rates, there would be less pressure on the dollar. Reason: the greenback has been declining because U.S. interest rates have lately been falling in comparison with those of West Germany...
...deal. In a speech in Los Angeles, the President welcomed the Bonn proposal. "We can wrap up an agreement on intermediate-range nuclear missiles promptly," he said. "We ask ourselves, Are we entering a truly new phase in East-West relations? Is far-reaching, enduring change in the postwar standoff now possible? Surely, these are our hopes...
Paris ordered three minesweepers and support ships to join a French naval detachment that is gathering in the region. That display of muscle is designed to strengthen France's hand in its continuing diplomatic standoff with Iran. The two countries severed relations last month after France blockaded Iran's embassy in Paris, where an interpreter suspected of terrorism is hiding. Iran responded by surrounding the French embassy in Tehran and holding 15 French citizens hostage inside...
...member of Hizballah commandeered an Air Afrique jet, singled out a French passenger and shot him dead. Though the hijacking was staged ostensibly to force West Germany to release two jailed Hizballah operatives, the killing of the Frenchman suggested another motive: to pressure Paris to end the continuing diplomatic standoff between France and Iran. Washington last week quietly warned government installations at home and abroad to be alert to the Iranian threat. In West Berlin, the Allied Command ordered a number of Iranian diplomats to leave the city "in the interests of public order and security...