Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...United Nations official in Beirut last week by Yasser Arafat, chief of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Like Lebanese officials, Arafat was angered by the failure of UNIFIL, the 7,000-strong U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon, to mount more than token resistance to the Israeli invasion. Declared a Western diplomat: null credibility was a bit weak before. Now it has suffered a real blow...
...Kirkpatrick's brusque manner has ruffled friend and foe alike, and occasionally dulls her effectiveness as a diplomat. Last year, for example, when 93 "nonaligned" countries signed a document criticizing the U.S. for, among other things, "aggression," after a pair of U.S. Navy jets shot down two Libyan fighters over the Gulf of Sidra, Kirkpatrick lashed out with a letter accusing them of what she called "absurd and erroneous charges" and "fabrications and vile at tacks." The upshot was that countries planning to criticize the document decided to keep silent, for fear of appearing to side with...
Despite rumblings for her dismissal, Kirkpatrick still enjoys the full backing of President Reagan. For now, her position as the Cabinet's leading neoconservative and only woman outweighs her liabilities as a diplomat. But, as happened with Jim my Carter's first U.N. envoy, Andrew Young, she is unlikely to stay at the U.N. a great deal longer even if she continues to have the support of the President. That much was clear from her speech last week. Arguing that the U.S. should be more professional in its approach to U.N. politics, Kirkpatrick noted parenthetically...
...promotion because, he was told, "you have violated the rules governing contact with foreigners." The technician had failed to report associating with a foreign friend to the lab's security department. For foreigners, too, the new restrictions have been noxious and unsettling. "You never know," says one diplomat, "when simply inviting a Chinese over to your house for an innocent lunch could get him into difficulties for the rest of his life...
...senior diplomat in Washington quickly dismissed the study as "garbage." Said State Department Spokesman Alan Romberg: "We reject the charge that the U.S. was party to any fraud. Nor did any of those countless observers on the site of the elections suggest there was fraud." Romberg cited as a "key error" the claim that it took voters 2½ to three minutes each to cast their ballots. A more likely estimate, he said, ranged between 30 seconds and one minute...