Word: diplomatic
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...younger Anderson was a prominent Boston-area philanthropist who worked as a diplomat in the Administration of then-President William Howard Taft, as an "envoy extraordinarie" to Belgium, Japan, and Rome...
Washington's skepticism about the U.N. has been seconded by the international organization's Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuellar. In a surprisingly pessimistic summary of the U.N's condition, Pérez de Cuellar, 62, a Peruvian career diplomat who began his five-year term as Secretary-General last January declared in his first annual report to the General Assembly, in September, that we are perilously close to a new international anarchy." The Secretary-General's main concern was that nations were increasingly ignoring the U.N. and its institutions, particularly the Security Council...
Other U.S. allies echo Kosciusko-Morizet's view that the organization, no matter how troubled it may be, still serves a purpose. Says a Bonn-based diplomat: "We do not underestimate the U.N.'s value as a peace-keeping force. We would not have had 30 years of peace in [Western Europe] without the U.N." British officials, who strongly agree with the Reagan Administration that U.N. agencies have become far too infected with Third World politics, particularly over the Arab-Israeli issue, feel that the U.N. remains a valuable diplomatic umbrella...
Through Susan's ardent temperament and acerbic tongue, Hare has his say on the duplicities of politics, the hypocrisies of business and the corruptive universal worship of Mammon. When Susan enters a loveless match with a middle-level diplomat (Edward Herrmann), Hare seizes his chance to lay down a carnal barrage on a Foreign Office bureaucracy requiring 6,000 men to dismantle an empire that it took 600 men to govern...
Imagine a visiting foreign diplomat looking over his morning Jerusalem Post and seeing, just below the flag--and at the top of every page--the word "destroy." Every office, every classroom in the country would have a calendar on the wall with a bold "destroy" at the top of each page. This is hardly the best image for the troubled Israelis to convey...