Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cabinet-level jobs were handed out, was America's premier banker, Walter Wriston. His absence was unsurprising if unfortunate because, along with being the most innovative of moneymen, the Citicorp chairman delivers outspoken opinions with a rapier tongue that belies his early career as a State Department diplomat. In a glass house 15 stories above Park Avenue, he sits at a circular desk (the better to gather aides around to chew over ideas) and, eyebrows arched and wisecracks flying, tosses out some sharp-edged stones. His main concern: "I think that we are steadily losing our freedoms...
...third party to verify compliance with restrictions on missile modernization, then, said Nordli, "Norway ought to be willing." Foreign Minister Knut Frydenlund was also critical of the position taken by the Defense Ministry, which has traditionally been more hawkish than the rest of the government. Said a ranking Oslo diplomat: "The military should be more sophisticated...
...member ruling junta and its 15-member Cabinet, though the ideologies range from the doctrinaire Marxism of Sandinista Leader Daniel Ortega to the capitalism of Businessman Alfonso Robelo. "During all the negotiations we had with the junta, Ramírez came out as the strong man," says a U.S. diplomat. "He behaved in a tough manner and struck us as the kind of leftist liberal who has little sympathy for the U.S. and its policy in Central America...
...program is approved by the lame-duck Parliament, she will become the first woman to govern Portugal since Queen Maria II in 1853. The chipper diplomat, who is single, is undaunted by that prospect. She acknowledges Maggie Thatcher's political pioneering. "We have always imitated the English," she quipped last week. "After all, we only started liking our own port wine after they...
...trying to forge a compromise between Somoza and the junta, State Department negotiators found themselves watched closely by the dictator's congressional supporters, in one case literally. Two weeks ago, when Ambassador Pezzullo called upon Somoza to press for his resignation, the diplomat was surprised to meet New York Democrat John M. Murphy in the bunker office. Murphy, who first befriended the Nicaraguan 40 years ago when they were classmates at a Long Island military academy, is the dictator's staunchest supporter in the House. Murphy went to Managua at his friend's request and attended...