Word: diplomats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Khomeini meanwhile in structed Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh to allow a group of foreign observers to visit the hostages. Said a senior Western diplomat in Tehran: "The Iranians have finally recognized that an international inspection of the hostages will go far toward defusing the tension...
Khomeini seems convinced that prolonging the crisis works to his advantage. Said a Western diplomat in Tehran: "He literally believes that he is forcing the U.S. to its knees, and at the same time rallying Islamic countries for an unprecedented reawakening. To achieve these objectives, the Imam is willing to practice the most brazen form of brinkmanship...
Insiders get good at deciding who could have said what, particularly when anonymity operates by understood code names: a "senior State Department official aboard the Secretary's plane" used to mean Henry Kissinger, and now means Cyrus Vance. A diplomat or bureaucrat can privately get across his side of an argument, or an explanation of policy, while publicly stating his position in Saran Wrapped platitudes. Not wanting to be used, reporters constantly labor to get off-the-record statements put back on the record but must often settle for not-for-at-tribution...
...Salisbury's Prime Minister Abel Muzorewa, the plan will go into effect as soon as final agreement is reached on a cease-fire between the warring factions. At long last, an end to the seven-year-old civil war was definitely in sight. Said one senior British diplomat: "To those of us who have been trying to solve this problem for the past 14 years, it seems like a miracle...
...Burgess and Maclean, who had been recalled to London, fled to Moscow. Twelve years later, the British government identified H.A.R. ("Kim") Philby, a diplomat-turned-journalist and fellow spy, as the "third man," who had tipped the two that they were about to be caught. Philby had by then followed Burgess and Maclean to Moscow. But Boyle claims that it was Blunt who was the tipster, phoning Burgess on May 25, 1951, a Friday, to warn him that British authorities would begin interrogating Maclean the following Monday...