Word: diplomatic
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Although Bok was not necessarily beloved by every student at the Law School, he was universally respected as a capable diplomat and a man who could affect change quickly...
Americans with experience in China assume the national leaders do know what kinds of sales are being made even if they are not aware of the details of each transaction. "China is chasing bucks," says John Frankenstein, a former U.S. diplomat teaching at the University of Hong Kong, "and people will do anything to make a buck. It's all about that anything-goes mentality that exists in China...
Washington bears some of the blame, however. Having delegated civilian implementation of Dayton to Bildt, the Americans have been unwilling even to imply that NATO's might stood behind the diplomat's efforts. "At least move some equipment around," said an official from Bildt's office, arguing that just a meeting between the diplomat and high NATO officials last week was enough to exact conciliatory talk from the Pale leadership...
...campus as peyote was in the mid-'60s. It wasn't just the kids who fell under the spell of Leary and LSD, but Establishment figures as well: Cary Grant, Steve Allen and musician Maynard Ferguson, not to mention TIME magazine founder Henry Luce and his wife, playwright and diplomat Clare Boothe Luce...
Boutros Boutros-Ghali, 73, is spreading the word that he just might run for another five-year term as U.N. Secretary-General this fall. The headstrong diplomat's adroit dispensation of U.N. patronage could make him formidable, and he would probably be supported by President Hosni Mubarak of his native Egypt and French President Jacques Chirac. That prospect rattles members of the Clinton Administration, since Bob Dole gets applause by pillorying Boutros-Ghali as an architect of Clinton's foreign policy. The Administration does not yet have an alternative, but may try to dissuade Boutros-Ghali by threatening to exercise...