Word: diplomatic
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...himself six months later. Result: record low popularity ratings for Chirac and his Prime Minister, Alain Juppe. Last week's result was thus more a rejection of Chirac than a full embrace of the left. The cohabitation may not be easy to manage. Jospin, 59, is an austere former diplomat and economics professor who has promised to change much of the President's economic policy. Chirac, 64, is an instinctive political operator who is determined to trim France's huge welfare state. But they are likely to try to get along. "Neither man seeks a fight," says political analyst Pascal...
Albright was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia on May 15, 1937 to Josef and Anna Korbel. As the daughter of a Czech diplomat, Albright got her first lessons in diplomacy very early on. She also got her first experience with tyranny when Adolf Hitler and the German army overran her country and her family fled to England...
DIED. ELBRIDGE DURBROW, 93, shrewd diplomat who for all his acumen could not maneuver the U.S. out of intemperate relations; in Walnut Creek, Calif. From the Moscow embassy, Durbrow witnessed the beginning of the cold war in the late 1940s. War seemed to shadow him; in 1957 he became ambassador to South Vietnam just in time to watch that region move toward conflagration...
...father was a diplomat, so most of my upbringing was outside the U.S. But every two years my family spent summers back home. When I was seven, we stayed on my grandparents' farm outside Springfield, Mo. My brothers, sister and I ran through the fields and swam in the creek. We competed to see who could dig up the biggest potato, who could pick the biggest peach. We built huge forts from bales of hay. We barbecued. Everyone was relaxed--even my father, which was unusual. One day, at summer's end, I sat on my father's lap, grabbed...
LAURA INGERSOLL, 45 The no-nonsense head of the special task force of roughly a dozen lawyers is a diplomat's daughter who grew up in Europe and South America. Some colleagues compare her to the rather prim Diane on Cheers. They also call her tenacious, smart and ethical. Though she has little experience doing major trials, she's handled corruption cases involving CIA employees. Just last year she extracted guilty pleas from four Agriculture Department employees who rounded up contributions from colleagues and subordinates for a pro-Clinton...