Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nuclear-weapons program? U.S. officials do not worry too much about more countries using calutrons. They are so expensive and relatively ! inefficient as to be attractive only to a dictator like Saddam, desperate to get his hands on a bomb at any cost. Nonetheless, says a senior British diplomat, "what we must do now is provide controls for every conceivable method of making nukes." At minimum, there must be a far more extensive and intrusive inspection process than the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (which Iraq signed) now provides. Saddam wannabes may be rare, but one would be more than enough...
...Intent on seizing all the arms from the troops sent into the republic and on publicly humbling the army, the republic's government scuttled the first cease-fire by demanding that departing forces turn over all weapons except personal arms before retiring to their barracks. "Provocateurs," said a Western diplomat stationed in Belgrade...
...political franchise, particularly if it represents no dilution of his own power. He might even find it easier to control the religious extremists who pose such a threat, in the moderates' view, to the stability of the kingdom. Despite their endorsement of a Consultative Council, says a Western diplomat, "the religious conservatives correctly perceive that one of its aims is to provide a forum for people to speak out against their excesses...
...President Richard von Weizsaecker was invited to speak at the 1986 Harvard Commencement, Dershowitz staged a one-man protest against the appearance. (The index entry reads "Dershowitz, Alan, protests Nazis honored at Harvard, 90-91.") Weizsaecker's crime? As an attorney, he defended his father, a high-ranking Nazi diplomat, in a war crimes trial. Representing an unpopular criminal defendant! Why of all the heinous, rotten, despicable acts...
...even these modest measures will make it more difficult for the radicals to mobilize opposition to what they call a fascist regime. Since taking their own lives has not produced the desired results, Korea's students may turn to even more drastic tactics. "The disturbing question," says a Western diplomat, "is, What is the next step?" Chun Se Yong's friends are still wondering why he took his last...