Word: diplomatic
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...Helms and Joe Biden don't agree on much, but the Republican chairman and the ranking Democrat of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee had similar messages for the German foreign minister this week. TIME has learned that in separate, private meetings in Washington with Joschka Fischer, Germany's top diplomat, both Helms and Biden warned that a major German oil company is negotiating to acquire huge oil deposits in Libya controlled by U.S. companies. Such a purchase, the senators cautioned, could harm U.S.-German relations by triggering sanctions under the Iran-Libya Sanctions...
...shattered country and to promise to abide by a peace deal to end the 33-month war there. He fired the ministers he inherited from his father, Laurent-Désiré Kabila, and promises to install a cabinet that "will work for Congo." Says a senior Western diplomat in the capital, Kinshasa, a city of moldering colonial grandeur and mid-1970s mineral boom excess: "For a guy his age he's remarkably savvy. The big question is, can he be ruthless enough to pull...
...Today, says the Western diplomat, "there's a belief, maybe a hope, that this time the Kabila is different." Certainly the capital is a lot less tense than at any time in the past year. Possession of foreign currency, banned by the elder Kabila, is legal again. And his son is negotiating to end a controversial contract granting an Israeli company a monopoly on the export of diamonds. Crucially, "he hasn't just broken the contract unilaterally, as would have happened in the past," says another Western diplomat. "It could be that he's scared of the repercussions...
Bush's Tuesday remarks left some old China hands dismayed. "You don't want to talk about harming the relationship until you know what sort of harm you may be inflicting," said J. Stapleton Roy, who was ambassador to Beijing under Bush's father and a top U.S. diplomat under Clinton. "I think it does reflect a certain amount of inexperience when you make statements like that." Roy blamed Bush's tone on Administration officials "who are unrealistic in their expectations of how China should behave in these circumstances...
...doubts over Powell's ability to make the transition from military man to diplomat have long since been laid to rest, and the secretary and his aides show little interest in media gush. They were given an assignment and they completed it, they say. And that's just what they're paid...