Word: diplomatic
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Fuentes, a former Mexican diplomat and visiting professor at Harvard, discussed the legacy and significance for the nations of Central and South America of celebrating the 500th anniversary of Columbus' voyage to the Americas...
Isaacson's judgments are generally sound, but like other Nixon and Kissinger biographers he is driven to take sides between the two men. He compares Kissinger with Metternich and Nixon with the wily diplomat's slow-witted superior, Austrian Emperor Francis I, but it was Nixon who persuaded Kissinger to encourage West Germany's overtures to East Germany and who initiated the opening to China. Clearly the two men had similar conceptual strengths and personal weaknesses...
...year. Germany provides asylum seekers with housing, food and free medical care. But unemployment in the area of eastern Germany where they are housed averages 30%, adding fuel to the racist resentment many citizens feel toward the newcomers. Civil order is increasingly fragile. Says a senior German diplomat: "It is out of control. We have to worry about civil...
...conflict will automatically trigger a wider Balkan war," says a U.S. official. It would almost certainly involve Albania and perhaps Macedonia, Greece, Bulgaria and even Turkey. If two NATO members become embroiled, the alliance could also be dragged in. "It's our nightmare scenario," says a senior British diplomat...
...dominant view among Western analysts is that Milosevic still has his hands full with Bosnia, and will avoid extending the war to Kosovo until his current charm offensive to secure diplomatic recognition of Serbia's gains in Bosnia has stalled. "But we have continually underestimated the savagery of this war," says a Western diplomat. "Kosovo is the one unifying issue he's got." If economic sanctions and international isolation make Serbs restive about Milosevic's rule, he could find a Kosovo clash very useful to prevent a coup by more radical Serbs who would consider peace a betrayal...