Word: diplomat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wasn't a diplomat. I was an international civil servant, which is a completely different thing. I don't like the word diplomat, actually. The ordinary person thinks of people in striped pants at a cocktail party or at a green baize table engaging in circumlocutions about serious matters. I was brought up between the wars, in a very dreary period of European history. I had always wanted to work for the League of Nations, but it went out of business before I got into the game...
...entry to the earth's atmosphere and landing. The ship is also capable of manned flight, carrying up to ten people, but the Soviets plan at least one more unmanned shot before putting a crew on board. "Just as we were scared to death by Chernobyl," explains a Western diplomat in Moscow, "they were scared to death when Challenger blew...
...abandon the fight if U.S. funding is not renewed. Civilian leader Alfredo Cesar hopes to return to Nicaragua by early next year, some say to run as the opposition candidate in the 1990 presidential elections. But Cesar is not well known within Nicaragua, and the Sandinistas, warns one diplomat, may dismiss his effort as "a blinding irrelevance...
...were hollowing out the country's moral center. They called for greater discipline in the schools. Both wanted to get tough on crime. Both used their church network while trying to reach beyond it. Robertson presented himself as a corporate executive and university president; Jackson presented himself as a diplomat-negotiator who had brought back hostages, kept factories and farms from closing, and transcended racial divisions. Robertson gave us a right-wing populism that had shed the overt racism of George Wallace's campaigns. Jackson gave us a left-wing populism that had gone beyond the black base...
...degree, most of Europe embraces the notion that perestroika represents a golden opportunity to increase trade. But some Europeans hope to collect a bonus by inducing Western-style change in the Soviet political system. "If Gorbachev's reforms are to succeed," says a British diplomat, "they can only do so by making the Soviet Union a very different place." West German Foreign Minister Hans Dietrich Genscher, among the first to welcome Gorbachev's promised reforms, argues that the West would be negligent if it ignored the "historic opportunity" offered by the Soviet leader to turn his country into a more...