Word: diplomatic
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General George Marshall's seems a curious portrait to adorn the Secretary of State's office in 1997, but the choice tells a lot about Madeleine Albright. The 1940s hero-diplomat crafted the ambitious economic plan that kept half of Europe on democracy's side. That world of us vs. them was swept away in 1989, but Albright still aspires to Marshall's "magic and very American approach," eager "to plant the seed" of democracy as he did. She has never forgotten how the people of her native Czechoslovakia, blocked by Stalin from joining the Marshall Plan, quietly absorbed American...
WASHINGTON: The Republic of Georgia made the unusual move of waiving diplomatic immunity for a high ranking diplomat who caused a fatal car accident which killed a 16-year-old girl in Washington this past January. The decision, made by Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze, clears the way for the arrest of George Makharadze who police say was drinking and apparently speeding before the crash. Early reports indicate the Justice Department may indict the diplomat on charges of involuntary manslaughter. State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns commended the Georgian government's decision, calling the waiver "courageous" and rare in the annals...
...trial, but even so, their government "has a responsibility to protect its citizens." Washington agrees that the lid should be kept on dangerous movements but thinks Bonn is tightening such restraints far beyond worrisome Nazi-like groups. "This is all extralegal in our view," says an American diplomat...
WASHINGTON: A German diplomat in Washington tells TIME Daily that a leaked report of a State Department plan to chastise Germany over its tough treatment of the Church of Scientology may have overstated the case. After years of restrained criticism of the situation, the State Department wanted to step up the pressure in its annual human rights survey this Thursday. According to the Post, the survey would criticize German authorities for a "campaign of harassment and intimidation" against the controversial church, which has seen such bizarre actions as youth groups calling for a boycott of the Tom Cruise movie "Mission...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: On a 99-0 vote, the Senate unanimously confirmed Madeleine Albright as Secretary of State. Expected to be sworn in Thursday, Albright will be the highest-ranking woman to serve in any federal government post and the first to serve as the President?s chief diplomat. Republican senators limited their criticism to the Clinton foreign policy and schmoozed with the former ambassador to the United Nations, foreign policy hawk Jesse Helms, who never made any secret of his support during the confirmation hearings, calling her "a strong lady, a courageous lady." The honeymoon is likely to be over...