Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some Western observers also suspect that Vasiljevic helped purchase arms for the Serbian war effort. "Everyone here would say he's up to his neck in arms deals, though it's hard to prove," says a diplomat in Belgrade. Vasiljevic denies that charge too, and he has found some support among Westerners who note that the Serbs spent 40 years building their arsenals. "Most of what has been used in the field is stocks they had previously," says a Western diplomat who served in Belgrade. "I would classify Vasiljevic as a sanctions buster...
...they have risked that wrath frequently -- and remained unpunished. "The steps the international community has taken are all worthy ones," says a Western diplomat. "But each has come far too late, in fact so late that they've only reaffirmed to Milosevic that he needn't fear force." The Western allies' decision to ignore Yeltsin's potential problems and push on over the weekend for an immediate deepening of sanctions against Serbia only repeats that pattern. Sanctions have not measurably weakened Belgrade's resolve, and are not likely to. Indeed, the campaign in Bosnia is so unquestioned in Belgrade that...
...disappearing without a trace into the chaotic, inflationary maw the economy has become -- if not into foreign bank accounts in a vast capital flight reaching between $10 billion and $30 billion a year. The Russian economy "is like a large and deep pool of mud," says a senior British diplomat. "You can toss in anything you like, and it just sinks to the bottom...
This actress knows where the camera is: nearby, as close and attentive as a lover, alert to the minutest inflection of voice or glance. Her Howards End work -- as Margaret Schlegel, a domestic diplomat mediating between warring families, classes and principles -- is a compact master class in screen subtlety. She punctuates an argument with a gay laugh, as if to say, "We surely aren't fighting!" Just before she first kisses her future husband, the self-deceiving predator Henry Wilcox (Anthony Hopkins), her body shivers, her hand flutters. The gestures, measurable in microseconds, give a brilliant hint of Margaret...
...fixture in Washington for more than a decade, Baker hardly lacked opportunities, including a lucrative offer to write his memoirs and a chance to run a foundation that Rice University wants to name for him in Texas. But after three years as America's jet-lagged senior diplomat and three months on the campaign trail managing Bush's failed re-election drive, Baker wanted to spend more time at home...