Word: diplomats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...diplomat ran outside the fence and put hisarm around the refugee...
PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia--A West German diplomat rescued an East German grabbed by a police officer yesterday as he tried to scale a fence into Bonn's mission. However, most Czechoslovak police relaxed their controls, letting hundreds more refugees enter the compound as a new diplomatic dispute built up over the issue...
Sweet are the uses of efficiency. One of the pleasures of this near perfect piece of reportage is the sense that both writer and subject waste little motion. Fighting the clock, the calendar and the fiscal year, Bauer needs more than his seed cap. A mechanic's lid, a diplomat's Homburg and a gambler's eyeshade would come in handy...
Foreign service professionals have loudly criticized their boss for freezing them out and surrounding himself with longtime aides. "He's running a mini- NSC, not State," complained a senior diplomat. "We learn what our policy is when we read it in the newspapers...
...Zedong's home province of Hunan, and that copies were circulating more than three months after the massacre in Tiananmen Square. Youth League officials in Beijing claimed not to know anything about the tract's origins, but they said the case was "under investigation." Said a Western diplomat: "The language is strongly reminiscent of the Cultural Revolution." If the booklet is genuine, he added, "it tends to confirm the view that a lot of attacks that appear to be aimed at ((ousted Communist Party leader)) Zhao Ziyang are in fact directed against Deng himself...