Word: diplomat
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...agricultural reform have been sidetracked by the increasingly vicious civil war. Western analysts in Addis Ababa compare the military situation to that in Afghanistan: well-motivated rebels fighting an army of conscripts who are poorly fed and poorly paid. "The army is just not fighting back," says a Western diplomat in Addis Ababa. Mengistu himself has been making frequent trips to the north to oversee military operations. But the rebels are said to be gaining ground daily while relief officials watch their distribution lines crumble. Brother Gregory Flynn, who works for the Ethiopian Catholic Secretariat, put it this...
...State Department prefers to play down such concerns. "At some point, this has to become an entirely Panamanian matter," one diplomat says. "We keep stressing that Panama should return to democracy, but it really is their responsibility to decide on details." Yet Washington cannot simply walk away from Panama once Noriega goes. Having brought the general to his knees, the U.S. will have to help the country return to normal...
There are times in Washington when important events settle on a single man. So now with Baker, who is judged by many to be the capital's most effective official. Baker is no economics expert. He is a diplomat, devising a global political system to guide the economy just when the enlightened management of wealth is emerging as a greater power for governments than weapons. "The political interest and the economic interest have converged," he says. He is right: whether Mike Dukakis and Jesse Jackson admit it or not, a good economy is not only in the national interest...
When Gorbachev came to power, he showed little interest in the nationalities problem and focused all his energies on the economy. "Gorbachev doesn't care about nationalities," observed a Western diplomat in Moscow. "He only cares about who works most efficiently." Yet events seem to have thrust the issue upon his attention -- with a vengeance. He devoted a lengthy passage to the subject in his 1987 book Perestroika, vowing "not to shun this or other problems which may crop up." By last month he was calling nationalism the "most fundamental, vital issue of our society." And in the wake...
...Geneva in 1982. At the time, a legion of reporters speculated about what Nitze and Kvitsinsky said in their confab. Blessing clearly felt the higher calling was to evoke what they should have said. His Soviet negotiator, far from a typical xenophobe, is worldly, urbane and cynical. His American diplomat is stuffy, didactic, socially inept but fervently idealistic about averting a nuclear horror. The two grow close, if not quite friendly, in their occasional walks between formal negotiations. The Soviet is able to be blunt when he explains to the American why the Kremlin must reject what both sides agree...