Word: diplomatic
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...West, they are taken seriously in Saudi Arabia, and his denunciation of women drivers amounted to a declaration of war. "There is a growing concern by religious conservatives that modern, foreign-educated technocrats will try to use the gulf crisis to push ahead with social reforms," says a Western diplomat in Riyadh. "They see the issue of women's driving as the first step in that direction...
...tensions between Western-educated Saudis and religious conservatives are certain to increase. An estimated 60,000 Saudis, for example, have attended U.S. universities. "On the one hand, they represent a sizable block that is just beginning to come into power," explains the diplomat. "But on the other hand, they still account for only 1% of the population." At the same time, Western analysts warn that many people in their 20s and early 30s who have been educated at Saudi universities are more religiously conservative than their Western-schooled elders...
...political movement that began in 1988 is effectively over now," says an Asian diplomat. Says a Western official: "One by one they have knocked off the challenges to the regime, from the League to the monks." The consensus in Rangoon is that the junta can survive any sanctions its Western critics may impose for as long as the military leaders are determined...
...Arab diplomat in Washington, these pronouncements meant that "Bush is building a one-sided case for war." To an official of Israel's governing Likud Party, the same words signified that the U.S. was getting cold feet. Said he: "The longer Bush waits, the harder it will be for the U.S. to go to war." At home too the President faced growing demands to spell out whether he was in fact taking the nation to war and, if so, for what goals...
...link his annexation of Kuwait with the Israelis' occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. A direct linkage would be disastrous, but given the depth of Arab fury over the carnage in Jerusalem, a strong connection already exists whether Washington likes it or not. Said a senior British diplomat: "The Arab-Israeli problem is now openly a part of the gulf crisis...