Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Christmas and perhaps much sooner. That is the latest estimate from Washington and abroad. Whether the economic embargo could ever force Saddam Hussein to retreat from Kuwait may never be known. "Our worst-case scenario," says an Arab diplomat involved in the allies' deliberations, has Saddam acceding to Bush's public demands. But the alliance's true objective has moved beyond restoring the status quo ante to the destruction of Iraq's nuclear, chemical and biological warfare capacities, a goal almost no one believes can be achieved through negotiation. Hence "the logic of war," to borrow Francois Mitterrand's phrase...
Among the most emotional appearances was aspeech by Angelika Voelkel, a German diplomat. Shetold more than 60 people in Adams House LowerCommon Room that the new Germany is symbolic ofthe new Europe...
...Indonesian diplomat in Tokyo dismisses this concern as exaggerated and self-serving. "Sure, we remember the militarism and imperialism associated with the Rising Sun in the '30s and '40s," he says. "But this is the '90s, and the threat is Saddam and his ilk. The Japanese are using our hang-ups as a cover for their...
While the overall theory may be intricate, Fisher says that one does not have to be a scholar or diplomat to understand the basics...
...hand until the week before, but when it was time to leave he did not even take away with him the consolation that anyone believed in his departure. The only man with enough lucidity to know he really was going, and where he was going to, was the English diplomat, who wrote in an official report to his government: 'The time he has left will hardly be enough for him to reach his grave...