Word: diplomatic
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...intercept sanction-busting vessels in the Adriatic Sea beginning on Tuesday this week. Bulgaria and Romania have started patrolling the Danube and inspecting suspicious cargoes. In addition, Bulgaria has banned petroleum exports to all former Yugoslav republics. "The sanctions regime won't plug all the loopholes," said a Western diplomat in Belgrade, "but things will begin to hurt very quickly...
These gracious sentiments were in marked contrast to what Yeltsin had been saying only a few weeks earlier. In conversations with his own aides and at least one Western diplomat, he had dismissed the Arkansas Governor as too young, too inexperienced and -- get this -- too much of a "socialist." That's a peculiar epithet from someone who, until two years ago, was a card- carrying communist; but now that Russia has repudiated Karl Marx and embraced Adam Smith, its leader is apparently susceptible to Republican propaganda about Democrats...
...more likely to inhabit novels than real life these days. But Cuban exile Francisco Avila Azcuy claims he was just that -- a double agent spying on exile commandos in Miami for Fidel Castro while helping the FBI unravel Cuba's espionage network in the U.S. Not uncoincidentally, a Cuban diplomat at the U.N. was expelled after the Spanish- language Miami TV station WSCV secretly videotaped the official discussing a prospective exile raid on Cuba with Avila...
...combat troops. "If he goes below 75,000," Dewar says, "it will be dangerously low." Even the French, who have been trying to ease America gently out of its commanding role, would blanch at the idea of insufficient U.S. force levels in Europe. As a senior French diplomat acknowledges, "We don't want America to dominate Europe. But we want it to be a main partner in European security, which includes Germany's stability, and its closest possible role in the alliance...
...regaining the White House from Jimmy Carter, would be replaced by solid Republican virtues now that patrician George was in the Oval Office. The simpleminded rhetoric about an evil empire would yield to more refined management of foreign policy under the former director of the CIA. Bush, a diplomat at the U.N. and in China, was not like Reagan, who before he turned 50 had been abroad only once, to make a movie in England...