Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Once talks began in earnest, the Secretary-General met separately each day with Parsons and Argentine Deputy Foreign Minister Enrique Ros in his 38th-floor U.N. suite. As time went on, the Peruvian-born diplomat played an increasingly active part, sometimes suggesting directly ideas of his own. He remained pleasant and courteous, but the strain began to show: his color was gray, his eyes were hollow behind his glasses, and he stooped as he walked...
...would counter that her government's belligerent stance was the only possible response to the original outrage of seizing the islands by force. Possibly Britain's greatest error was allowing the Falklands dispute to come to such a pass in the first place. Snaps one senior U.S. diplomat: "The British cannot escape some responsibility for not dealing with the situation before it blew...
There were, however, few signs of any regrets in other capitals. "The British pushed too hard and had it coming to them," said a West German official in Bonn. A French diplomat in Paris grumped, "Crisis? It would be fair to say that the European Community has been in a crisis ever since the British joined...
That leaves creditors with only the honeyed tongue of someone like Gary Golditch, 31, manager of the Financial Collection Agencies in Maiden, Mass., who calls himself "a diplomat." The key thing, says Golditch, is not to let the debtor hang up. Start by being polite: "I'm sorry to inconvenience you but..." Impress on the debtor his moral responsibility: "You received the merchandise you wanted, but my client has not been paid ..." Golditch calls these opening gambits a means of "captivating" the debtor. "After that, I'm sure you'd talk with me," he says, leaning back...
...llar was not certain that he would be regarded as an objective mediator by both sides. The Secretary-General and Argentine Deputy Foreign Minister Enrique Ros, with whom he is dealing, were not only fellow South Americans and diplomatic neighbors but longtime personal friends as well. Pérez de Cuéllar told TIME's Louis Halasz: "I thought that perhaps at some stage British public opinion would say, 'This gentleman is from South America and he might tilt toward the Argentines.' But I must say the British government has always given me its full support...