Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year-old imperial heir selected Masako Owada '85 as his bride-to-be after a long and well-publicized search. Owada is the daughter of Japan's top diplomat, Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs Hisashi Owada...
...separated from rebuilding the nation. The use of troops initially is a good idea, says Howard Bell, acting director of CARE-Somalia, "but only if it is put within a well- thought-out program of national recovery that involves factional leaders, community elders and clan representatives." A Western diplomat in Somalia agrees. "The troops will be able to achieve their objective of securing relief shipments," he says. "But the bigger question is, Then what...
...elegant, doleful man named Miroslav Jancic, poet and former diplomat, introduces himself. Sarajevo is a concentration camp, he says in quiet anguish. "How do you eat?" I ask. "Not well," he says. "This shirt used to fit perfectly." He inserts two fingers between his neck and the buttoned white shirt collar. Possibly the worst crime of the war -- worse even than the ingenious atrocities that are the specialite de la maison of the Balkans -- is the systematic starvation of entire populations by the Serb fighters surrounding cities like Tuzla and Srebrenica and Sarajevo...
These moves have drawn criticism not only from Moscow but also from the West -- an ominous sign for nations pinning their hopes for the future upon integration with Europe. "What they are doing is a form of civilized ethnic cleansing," says a senior British diplomat. "It's a repugnant form of nationalism...
...strategy could be the reformers' best hope of outflanking the conservatives. "The government is trying to give up its responsibility for part of the economy by turning it over to the managers of these enterprises," says a Western diplomat in Moscow. "The real test will come when some of these managers are faced with bankruptcy, and they come to the government for a bailout, and the government says, 'No, that's not our responsibility anymore.' " The more fundamental question is whether the Russian people will come to understand that they, not the government, are ultimately responsible for their entire economy...