Word: diplomatically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...South Korea, the presumptive first target of any attack from the North, is against backing Kim into a corner, a result it fears economic sanctions would accomplish. What Seoul wants least is responsibility for an economically devastated North. "We're content with a divided peninsula," says a South Korean diplomat familiar with the huge absorption costs borne by West Germany's embrace of the East...
What made the mortar shell that burst in Sarajevo's central market that Saturday morning different from the innumerable other rounds that have slammed into the Bosnian capital over the previous 22 months? "Strategically it meant nothing," says a senior U.S. diplomat. But the grisly footage broadcast round the globe showing 68 people blown to bits while peacefully shopping made for peculiarly revolting television. The timing of the attack, seemingly planned to kill the greatest possible number of innocent civilians, dramatized the brutality of the war all over again to a world populace that had grown benumbed to reports...
...while, then stepping up the fighting again. There is also a fear that the ultimatum and air strikes are a mere facade behind which the U.S. will help pressure Bosnia's beleaguered Muslims into settling the war on terms amounting to a surrender to Serb aggression. One U.S. diplomat cynically believes some air strikes will in fact be conducted "because that will help us press the Bosnians to sign on to the dismemberment of their country...
...formed 45 years ago to resist any Soviet Bloc invasion of Western Europe, but its first shots fired in anger, if any are, will be a pre-emptive, not a defensive, act against antagonists having nothing to do with a Soviet empire that no longer exists. A NATO diplomat says the ministers in Brussels never even discussed what Moscow might think...
...students were then members of the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee, a pro-divestment group which organized a blockade in Lowell House that month when a top-ranking South African diplomat spoke there...