Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...could compel Carlos to stand trial at least four times. Meanwhile, Berlin's attorney general is threatening to seek extradition for a 1983 bombing. In the Middle East, Arabs are bracing for shocking disclosures, since Carlos is "a walking encyclopedia of terrorism," says investigating magistrate Bruguiere. An East European diplomat in Beirut admits that "a lot of people would like him to have a heart attack very quickly in his French prison. If he talks, it will create scandals all over the world...
...North Korean negotiators in Geneva were hammering out a joint statement this evening -- probably an agreement on how to dispose of 8,000 spent fuel rods that North Korea could otherwise use in its alleged nuclear weapons program, a North Korean diplomat said. The pact could set off a domino effect, observes TIME correspondent Jay Peterzell, resulting in a U.S.-funded, $2 billion light-water reactor -- unsuitable for production of fuel for weapons -- for Pyongyang, and the establishment of full diplomatic ties. After tonight, the two sides are expected to break until September. "This buys time and keeps everything...
...recovered from this rather quickly, as she did from all her relationships. At 39 she married her second husband, producer Leland Hayward. . Six months after his death in 1971, she moved on to the industrialist and diplomat Averell Harriman, with whom she had had an affair in her youth. It was as Mrs. Harriman that she became the Democratic Party's most celebrated fund raiser...
...tuck," Strick says. "They say it's two weeks' work on one character. Four months later, you're still on the picture." While on the job, you must be, in the words of talent agent Jeremy Zimmer, "an artist, a technician and a diplomat" -- jobs that may be mutually exclusive. The trick, Whedon says, is to "know how to please people without turning work into junk...
...pending elections that would possibly take place next year. But Arafat has shown no inclination to accept that plan or any other that would require him to share his power. "The Palestinian Authority," complains a senior P.L.O. official, "consists entirely of yes- men." Says a Western diplomat: "Arafat is in no hurry for elections. He will try to structure them to prevent a challenge to his pre-eminence...