Word: diplomatic
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...FAGET, 54, Cuban-born U.S. immigration officer; with spying for Havana; in Miami. U.S. officials fed Faget false information about a Cuban's plan to defect to America and arrested him after he passed the "intelligence" to a Cuban-born businessman in New York. Washington later expelled a Cuban diplomat with ties to Faget...
...RUBIN. Barak and Syrian Foreign Minister FAROUK SHARA were to return to Shepherdstown this week. Clinton aides hope the two will finally start bargaining seriously behind closed doors and stop posturing. "It doesn't instill confidence in your negotiating partners when everything is out in public," says a U.S. diplomat...
Washington may not want Iraq policy in the spotlight during an election year, but why should Moscow care? Russia made life difficult for the U.S. Monday by formally rejecting Kofi Annan's nomination of Swedish diplomat Rolf Ekeus to head up a new U.N. weapons-monitoring commission in Iraq. Ekeus, a former head of the soon-to-be-disbanded UNSCOM, had been widely viewed as being both sufficiently diplomatic and sufficiently forceful to get the job done, but the Russian veto reflects deep divisions in the Security Council over the future of sanctions against Iraq. "The U.S. wants...
...some, to look for reasons not to send Elian back--a U.S. immigration officer stationed in Cuba met with Elian's father Juan Miguel at his Cardenas home (without Cuban officials present). They met again on New Year's Eve in the Havana home of a United Nations diplomat. The latter location was deliberate: U.S. officials were worried that Juan Miguel might be manipulated by Castro and wanted a location that was unlikely to be bugged. The goal of the inquisition was to determine just how close father and son really were. Elian's family in Miami had told investigators...
...Israeli or Syrian diplomat in Shepherdstown, W.Va., and you're bushed from a day of haggling over your historic treaty. Don't just curl up with room service. Get out and mingle! This may be a four-stop-sign town, but its 1,274 residents are a gumbo of army and CIA retirees, artists, naturists--and there's a thriving gay community too. Our guide for fun-loving peacemakers...