Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...royal family, having contributed to our coverage in 1990 of the wedding of Prince Akishino and of Emperor Akihito's ascension to the Chrysanthemum Throne. While all this background proved to be essential grounding in reporting our story on next week's marriage of Crown Prince Naruhito and former diplomat Masako Owada, it did not quite reach into the, er, heart of the matter. "The topic of most interest to everyone was why a Harvard- and Oxford-educated upper- middle-class woman decided to give up her career and marry into the imperial family," says Makihara. "Only Masako Owada knows...
...faces to the outside world: the responsible, reasoned face that solicits Western loans and investments, and the rigid, ideological face that accepts murder and lies as tools of statecraft. "Iran is in a sense more dangerous today than it was under Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini," says a senior British diplomat. "Then the antagonism to the West was blatant. Now it is more nuanced...
...Rahman on its own watch list. In April 1991 the immigration service made an unexplained error when it gave the sheik a green card attesting permanent resident status, although his visa by then had been revoked and he was in the U.S. illegally. At that point, says a U.S. diplomat, "the Egyptians went ballistic" and insisted that the U.S. expel Sheik Abdel Rahman. His residency status was lifted last year, but his case could be tied up in court for years...
...because he doesn't want to." Further proof of this assessment came last week when Bosnian Foreign Minister Haris Silajdzic couldn't even arrange a meeting with senior U.S. officials to discuss the situation Clinton once called "the nation's most urgent foreign policy priority." Explained a top American diplomat: "We can't see him because that would raise expectations our policy can't meet...
...Administration was unprepared at this early stage to deal with a foreign policy problem of such high risk and low payoff, one that even the old hands in the Bush Administration had shied away from. "The question raised by Clinton's performance," says a U.S. diplomat, "is not just his backbone but his basic competence." A measure of the Clinton team's frustration: at the last meeting of the President's advisers before his May 1 decision to send Christopher to Europe with a sample case of options, a frustrated participant asked, "Isn't there anyone outside the government with...