Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Europeans are delighted. They have told Washington officials that by insisting that peace talks and an Israeli pledge to halt settlements in the occupied territories must come before the money, Bush is demonstrating a long-overdue evenhandedness to the Arabs as the delicate negotiations loom. Says a senior French diplomat: "At last Bush is stopping the tail wagging the dog. Without that, the peace talks would be doomed from the start." So why not support him in public? Says a European diplomat: "We don't want to be accused of anti- Semitism...
...people like George Bush. They figure he's a decent guy at heart, and they're probably right. They figure he's an effective diplomat, and they're probably right. They figure he's not going to create too many domestic catastrophes of epic proportions, and they're probably right about that...
...main road connecting the Croatian capital of Zagreb to the besieged region of Slavonia along the Danube River to the east, virtually cutting the republic in two. The Yugoslav federal air force subjected Osijek, Slavonia's major city, to indiscriminate bombing of civilian targets. Said a senior British diplomat in London: "This is naked grabbing of all the ground Milosevic can get." Against that backdrop, Yugoslav leaders gathered at the weekend in the Dutch capital for an E.C.-sponsored conference at which they are likely to prove as bellicose as their compatriots now fighting on the ground...
...After Shevardnadze's resignation in December, hard-liners in the Party Central Committee and the military pressured Gorbachev to name as the new Foreign Minister a professional bureaucrat rather than a relatively independent, personally powerful figure in the Shevardnadze mold. Gorbachev obliged them by picking Alexander Bessmertnykh, a career diplomat...
Hearing of Bush's remarks from his command center in the Russian Parliament Building, Yeltsin ordered his foreign minister to deliver a letter for Bush to the top U.S. diplomat in Moscow. Deputy chief of mission Jim Collins picked up the missive himself and cabled it to Washington. From there, Robert Gates, Deputy National Security Adviser, relayed it to Brent Scowcroft, who read it aboard Air Force One and informed Bush of its contents...