Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even though this sharp turn toward free enterprise, seven months after the death of paramount reformer Deng Xiaoping, had been rumored for weeks, it was still greeted with wonder. "It's breathtaking," said Charles W. Freeman Jr., a former U.S. diplomat. "Nothing on that scale has ever been attempted." Others saw the change as a risky move. "Jiang is doing what Deng did not dare do," says a Chinese political analyst in Beijing. "He's putting the bankrupt state sector on the block even at the risk of social instability...
...meant, explains a senior U.S. diplomat, that "she would go to focus on the broader political initiative once we saw progress on the security issues." An Albright visit was held out to the Palestinians as a reward for shutting down the Islamists. That didn't happen, and now, as far as the Israelis are concerned, that's the whole purpose of her trip. "I think she realized that waiting for a sufficient crackdown was not going to suffice," says David Bar-Illan, Netanyahu's director of communications and policy planning. "We want progress on this issue...
...This trip is a Sisyphean climb for a diplomat, and the path is well-worn by her predecessors. Tomorrow Albright meets with Arafat, presumably to insist once again on a security crackdown. One can only hope she can charm him as easily as she does Jesse Helms...
...personal connections." They are alike in their antipathy to corruption, their disgust with the old ways, their outrage at how badly their countries were run. And they all seem more concerned with how to promote social, economic and political progress than their predecessors ever were. Says a senior U.S. diplomat: "In comparison to what went before, they look damn good...
DIED. ALBERT SCHOEPPER, 83, conductor who kept the Marine Band--the President's Own--in line and on key; in Alexandria, Va. Colonel Schoepper also played the diplomat at White House concerts: he once continued gamely when Winston Churchill burst into song to accompany the band...