Word: diplomatic
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...news. The cool reception the award was given in other Asian states was hardly more encouraging. "It might prick the conscience of a few people," said Zakaria Ahmad, head of strategic and security studies at the National University of Malaysia, "but it won't change anything." A Singaporean diplomat categorized the prize as "almost a nonevent...
...Rhodes Scholarship, established in 1902 by British diplomat Cecil J. Rhodes, allows students from around the world to study for up to three years in the graduate schools of England's Oxford University. In the United States, the Rhodes Scholarships Trust does not require college endorsement of applicants...
...approach -- despite its own purported constitutional ban on deploying troops beyond NATO's boundaries -- Britain and the Netherlands viewed Bonn's rhetoric as grandstanding, a ploy to extend German influence in Eastern Europe. The French, meanwhile, seemed "torn between their desires and what makes sense," as a senior Italian diplomat put it. Francois Mitterrand dearly wants a distinct West European "defense identity," but the French President has a Bismarckian distaste for the Balkans. "These countries," he fairly snorted two weeks ago, "have been at the origin of several great wars into which we were then dragged...
Western officials did not exempt Tudjman from fault. Said a U.S. diplomat: "The Croatian government is far from blameless or democratic, and it has severely discriminated against Serbs living in Croatia." But Milosevic's aims are expansionist, and success on his part threatens to undo everything the E.C. stands...
...desk to recognize Slovenia and Croatia and leave the rest of the work aside." According to Dutch officials, moreover, their government moved to call the WEU meeting only to force gun-shy Bonn "to put up or shut up" on the proposal to commit troops. About Genscher, a British diplomat cracked, "In his pursuit of the Nobel Peace Prize, he has been grossly irresponsible." Britain and France expect that 30,000 to 40,000 troops would be required to keep Yugoslavia's combatants apart...