Word: diplomatic
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Historian Clinton Rossiter noted that the president must wear many hats, and several of them seem to fit Bush comfortably. The former vice-president has more than fulfilled his duties as chief diplomat, entertaining foreign dignitaries by the dozen, at formal dinners and baseball games...
Upon returning to Moscow in 1944 after a seven-year absence, the American diplomat George Kennan was struck by the enigma of an empire both yearning for its rightful place in the modern world and clinging to the enfeebling insularity of its past. "The Anglo-Saxon instinct is to attempt to smooth away contradictions," he wrote. "The Russian tends to deal only in extremes, and he is not particularly concerned to reconcile them. To him, contradiction is a familiar thing. It is the essence of Russia...
...HAVING A BIG MAC ATTACK! The expense of maintaining Western employees in the U.S.S.R. is extraordinarily high, as much as $400,000 a year % for a one-worker office. Says a Western diplomat: "The cost of renovating a Soviet apartment to our standards is $100,000, if you can find one. And to keep the Western employees sane, you have to fly them out of the country at least four times a year." Because employees feel deprived of their comforts, some companies provide allowances, so that personnel can import such hard-to- find items as toothpaste, fruit, toilet paper...
Your March 13 edition reports with convincing detail that the Harvard Salient was affiliated with the Harvard/Radcliffe Conservative Club until 1985, when all ties were severed in an angry dispute over the club's decision to invite a South African diplomat to campus. The drama inherent in this history almost makes one wish it were true, but the real facts are much more pedestrian. The Salient has had no connection with the Conservative Club since 1982. Therefore, while many Salient staff members did oppose the club's invitation of Abe Hoppenstein (and its subsequent sponsorship of a speech by Duke...
Most Western analysts doubt that New Delhi has developed the capacity -- or the inclination -- to launch a sustained military action outside its immediate neighborhood. Today the territory that India most covets is purely psychological. Says a West European diplomat in New Delhi: "More than anything else, India wants to be taken seriously. It wants to be viewed as a world power. That is an end in itself...