Word: diplomatic
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...series of conferences in 1944, he committed the country to international mechanisms in a variety of fields--finance and trade, relief and reconstruction, food and agriculture, civil aviation. Most of all, he saw the United Nations, in the words of the diplomat Charles E. Bohlen, as "the only device that could keep the U.S. from slipping back into isolationism." He arranged for the U.N.'s founding conference to take place in San Francisco before the war was over (though it turned out to be after his own death in April...
...photographs of likely suspects. The FBI subjected an officer to extensive lie-detector tests and conducted a search of his home. A source told TIME that the FBI asked a State Department official about a brown tweed jacket, which was never found. FBI agents found no evidence linking the diplomat they questioned with wrongdoing, and he is back at his State Department desk...
Kofi Annan may feel like he has the raw end of the deal Wednesday. While his appointed deputy, Jayantha Dhanapala, touches down in Baghdad to head up the diplomatic posse that will enter the long-disputed presidential palaces, the secretary general embarks on a rather riskier mission: Selling the U.N. in Washington. And Annan, ever the consummate diplomat, will be making his own pointed diplomatic gesture -- by steering well clear of Capitol Hill...
...bodyguards and occasionally a third who scouts the road for gawkers. To relax, he listens to jazz, takes walks in the country and indulges in a daily cigar. But his consuming passion is his wife, Nane, a lawyer and accomplished painter and the niece of Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who rescued thousands of Jews from the Nazis during World War II. "They've forged a real partnership," says their friend, author Kati Marton. "I never had the sense she was particularly ambitious for him. But she's immensely proud of what's happened...
...another display of Annan's skills as a diplomat that he simply ignores the bickering in Washington. Trent Lott complained Wednesday that "the secretary general is calling the shots, the U.S. is not." The majority leader is right, of course. That is a natural outcome of the U.S. policy, begun under George Bush, of insisting that the confrontation with Iraq be under U.N. auspices...