Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What a thoughtless Swiss diplomat came to call nothing less than a "war" against his country started with little things. A gold ring. A novel. A chair. Before long, a chain reaction of seemingly disconnected events, an assortment of powerful personalities and a series of Swiss blunders culminated in a moral crusade to track down stolen wealth hidden away inside the vaults of Zurich and restore it to the victims of the Holocaust. The proximate cause was money, but the soul-searing intent of the men and women who set the hunt in motion was to peel back the veil...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: His diplomatic immunity revoked, Georgian diplomat Gueorgui Makharadze, the Republic of Georgia's number-two envoy in Washington, turned himself in to Washington, D.C. police Thursday to face charges that his drunken driving caused the death of a 16-year-old girl earlier this year. Cruising through busy downtown streets at speeds up to 85 mph, Makharadze had careened into a line of cars waiting at a stoplight on Connecticut Avenue, setting off a fatal chain reaction. If found guilty of manslaughter, the 35-year-old diplomat could spend the next 30 years in a U.S. prison, with...
...diplomat. I'm such a political person." Translation: she is not about to depart radically from current policies. The Albright version of Administration policy will look pretty much like the Christopher version. She was chosen as a team player, she helped formulate the current positions, and she is smart enough to let Bill Clinton be master of his own foreign policy...
Luckily, that shouldn't happen. One day soon a government official or diplomat is expected to arrive with a visa, a plane ticket, some cash, to drive Zhang and her family to the airport and put them on a plane to freedom. Sources tell TIME that over the next few months more than 40 Chinese dissidents and their families who have languished hidden in Hong Kong with Zhang will at last be granted asylum in the West and secretly flown out of the territory. These departures will mark the end of the legendary "Yellowbird" underground railroad set up to rescue...
...pressure of the upcoming handover has led some nations that had never been involved, like Italy and Austria, to step forward. "This is not anti-China," says a diplomat. "This is an expression of commonly held ideas and principles about human rights...