Word: diplomatic
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...pressing evil. The economic arguments are inextricably bound up with world politics. The French and West Germans, in particular, make a strong point that NATO cannot build the military strength that Reagan desires if the economies of the industrialized West are sapped by high unemployment rates. Said one French diplomat on the eve of the summit: "If unemployment continues to grow across the Continent, what is a jobless youth to think? He is bound to think that it is ab surd to spend billions in national wealth on armaments...
...same time, Washington was preaching moderation to Britain. "We have been telling them in every way that the only thing worse than a British military defeat is the wrong kind of victory," said a senior U.S. diplomat. That concern was shared by Britain's European allies, who were engaging in what one West German official called "a lot of quiet diplomacy" in favor of a peaceful settlement. Stressing the need for "negotiations," French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson said last week, "I'm a little sorry I have not heard that expression the last few days in any British...
...extended to European countries that have backed Britain with economic and military sanctions against Argentina. The West Germans, who trade heavily with South America, have even dispatched a Cabinet minister on a troubleshooting tour of Latin America to explain Bonn's support of Britain. A French diplomat noted that the government of President François Mitterrand "has made one of its central foreign policy goals that of improving North-South relations. To the extent that the Falklands retard that, everyone loses...
Surveying the bloodshed in Beirut, one appalled Western diplomat asked: "If this is vengeance, then what happened to [the biblical injunction] 'an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth?' " In battered Lebanon, at least, the arithmetic of Israeli retribution-100 for 1-seemed tragically askew. In Israel, however, many officials and ordinary citizens felt the raids were an appropriate response to the coldblooded shooting of Argov. It was the latest in a series of attacks on Israeli envoys. On April 3, an Israeli embassy official in Paris named Ya'acov Barsimantov, who was said...
...Basically, she was representing a government which claimed to support human rights, but she realized that others didn't do much to carry out these instructions," explains Jean-Christopher Oberg, a Swedish diplomat now at the CFIA. "If you are used to playing games then you can accept it. If you have a certain perception, conviction, and realize that colleagues are doing the very opposite, it's traumatic." Swift, he says is switching to the consular side of the foreign service because "She doesn't want to be fooled again--she doesn't want to be in a position...