Word: diplomatic
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There was widespread skepticism about Ioseliani's claim. Said a senior British diplomat: "The new leaders barely control the center of Tbilisi, let alone the republic. The place is in the throes of anarchy." As word of Gamsakhurdia's downfall spread, thousands of the ousted leader's supporters gathered at the capital's train station for a march through the city. For the second time since the conflict began, gunmen tossed smoke bombs and opened fire on the crowd, scattering the demonstrators. Ioseliani defended the use of terror to enforce a state of emergency in Tbilisi...
...freedom was not lost. The image of a defiant Yeltsin sent the same signal to the rest of the world and heightened pressure on President Bush to denounce the coup. Historians will debate how much impact this televised imagery had on the outcome. But it is noteworthy that a diplomat representing one of the newly independent Baltic republics jubilantly called people at CNN days later and thanked them for helping to give his country its freedom...
...kind of work that requires this father of two to be part policeman, part troubleshooter, part juggler and very much a diplomat. "I walk a beat," Oliver explains, "talking to editors, checking in with the art department, seeing where the snags are in the week's flow." If a late-breaking story requires us to work on some pages later than usual, he makes certain that others are finished ahead of time so the magazine closes on schedule...
...Moscow, St. Petersburg and other hungry cities, using military rations left over from the Persian Gulf war. He also proposed that all nations interested in sending aid to the old U.S.S.R. hold a conference in early January to coordinate who would put up how much. But a senior British diplomat grumbled that the conference "should have been held three months ago, and now it needs to be held next week. By January it might well be too late." The brutal Russian winter could cause suffering severe enough to trigger political chaos before the session can convene...
That same year Amiram Nir posed as an American diplomat at a meeting with an Iranian official. According to a tape recording of their conversation, the Iranian told Nir he should analyze Khomeini's character. "If he is faced with someone who is strong," said the Iranian, "he retreats 100 steps. You were softies with...