Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...adds that a Chinese diplomat recently defected to the U.S. and brought with him a document indicating that the Chinese leadership knows exactly how to manipulate American public opinion by timing releases of political prisoners...
...Xiaoping over a clutch of veteran hard- liners. Yet Deng, 85, remains locked in a paralyzing succession struggle that precludes any but the most cosmetic policy changes in the near future. "What we are seeing is the classic politics of the end of an era," says a senior Asian diplomat in Beijing. "Since the Emperor never retires, we must wait until he dies." Until then the kingdom and its subjects can do little but wait and wonder what will follow...
Another American diplomat based in Africa is concerned that with expectations raised by events in Eastern Europe, Western countries will demand < too much of Africa too soon and that desperately needed aid and debt relief will be hitched to an unrealistically rapid schedule of political change. "Are we going to force something else on this continent that's inappropriate?" asks the diplomat. "Must a country have MULTIPARTY stamped on its forehead before the appropriations committee will pony...
...items in the bag stolen from the dental clinic in Gorky was a letter about Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who rescued thousands of Hungarian Jews during World War II, then vanished when the Soviets occupied Budapest. Soviet authorities have maintained that Wallenberg died in prison in 1947 and the file of his case was destroyed. The latter assertion most assuredly is untrue: NKVD and KGB investigation files are stamped TO BE PRESERVED FOREVER; pages may be removed on instructions from the top, but a file is never completely eradicated...
...President sat and watched the remainder of the show, including a tableau -- Moses redux? -- of a baby Saddam rocking in a cradle in the marshes. Remarked a Western diplomat: "Even to veteran Saddam watchers, this spectacle reached new heights...