Word: diplomatic
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...lesson learned throughout the region from the staggering death tolls, sums up one senior U.S. diplomat, is "if you don't strike first, you risk annihilation." That belief led to last week's military coup in Burundi. When the coalition government designed to protect the interests of both sides invited foreign military intervention last month to impose security as a prelude to all party talks, government figures were denounced as traitors at home by Hutu and Tutsi extremists alike. Both groups feared that the outside forces would help their enemies to victory and endanger their very existence...
...impulse comes naturally to Netanyahu, though. He spent a total of 16 years in the U.S., as a student, management consultant and diplomat. "He lived and breathed American culture and politics," says Zvi Rafiah, a former Israeli diplomat. "From the point of view of governing style, he is an American." Indeed, Netanyahu has borrowed directly from the U.S. system to create two new agencies to advise him in the hope of siphoning off power from the ministries. Even the names are the same as in Washington: the National Security Council and the Council of Economic Advisers...
...then a consummate politician would not have risked everything for his cause. What Peres has proved himself to be is a decent human being--and a true visionary. What greater honor could be bestowed upon him than for the U.N. to name him as its next Secretary-General? No diplomat on the world stage has been so dedicated to the cause of peace and so tireless in pursuing the U.N.'s primary goal: the end of conflicts worldwide. BOB ADAMS Dania, Florida...
...Koppel blurted: "With all due respect, let me suggest to you, I still don't think you get it." ("I was inviting the candidate to slap me down," he recalls. "And I couldn't imagine why he didn't.") And this was his elegant response to an evasive Iraqi diplomat: "Ambassador Hamdoon, I know that you have had another career before you became a diplomat, so perhaps you will take some pity on me. I'm not a diplomat. I don't understand what those phrases mean. Does that mean yes or no?" Reporters might like to post that...
...burst out laughing. It was a good joke but a smug one, reflecting the Prime Minister's supreme confidence as it played on his challenger's reputation as a handsome but empty suit. In the end, though, the humiliation belonged to Peres, the last laugh to the glib former diplomat with only eight years' experience in the take-no-prisoners world of Israel's electoral politics...