Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...York City who gets married to please his parents -- has grossed $1 million in its first month of specialized release. This week the Toronto Film Festival opens with M. Butterfly, David Cronenberg's film of the David Henry Hwang play about a tryst between a French diplomat (Jeremy Irons) and a Chinese man (John Lone) whom he believes to be a woman; it opens commercially Oct. 1. This Wednesday, Wayne Wang's lovely The Joy Luck Club, a fourfold Terms of Endearment based on Amy Tan's best-selling novel about a quartet of Chinese-American families, premieres...
...Warren Christopher. He was amazed and swiftly telephoned the President, who expressed immediate support. Washington had been aware since the outset that secret talks were taking place, but had little idea of the pace and scope. "We gave them some inkling, but that's all," said a senior Israeli diplomat. The U.S. knew about four secret channels that the Israelis were operating with the P.L.O. and believed Israeli diplomats who said, in the words of a senior U.S. official, that nothing "had particularly jelled." What the Clinton Administration did not count on was the persistence of both sides in seeking...
...nation's difficulties are multiplied by its unchecked population growth. Since Mubarak came to power 12 years ago, the number of Egyptians has grown from 43 million to 58 million. "Young, educated Arabs who have no job prospects, even as taxi drivers," says a senior British diplomat, "have been willing recruits to fundamentalism." These people are coming not only from the slums but also from the middle class...
...peril. State Department officials regard the current tensions there as "chaotic to the point of anarchy." Eduard Shevardnadze's government is threatened not only by a war in the breakaway region of Abkhazia but also by violence from supporters of ousted communist President Zviad Gamsakhurdia. Says a Western diplomat: "Georgia is a country full of people with guns who shoot them all the time...
...themselves have earned him the diminutive "General Shali." He made his first international impact running Operation Provide Comfort to feed Iraq's Kurds and protect them from Saddam Hussein. During a tour this spring through the former Soviet-bloc capitals, says an aide, Shalikashvili "showed he's as much diplomat as general...