Word: diplomatically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fires could burn for years, spewing out poisonous fumes that choke the air and rake the throat, particularly when the air is still. The miasma poses a special risk to the very young, the old and the infirm. "There is a real danger to human life," says a Western diplomat in Riyadh. "When the winds stop, a lot of people are going...
...public at large prompted the entire Cabinet to consider resigning at a late-night meeting last Thursday. But the Prime Minister urged them all to work harder instead. "We'll see where things stand in three or four weeks," an aide reports Sheik Saad as saying. Says a Western diplomat: "Considering the public's anger, and all the weapons available, they're lucky they don't have a new regime...
Palestine Liberation Organization chairman Yasser Arafat rendered Shamir's obstructionist policy all the more workable by alienating the West, his Arab bankrollers and the Israeli peaceniks. "The Palestinian path no longer goes through Arafat," says a senior U.S. diplomat. Some of the chairman's supporters suggest he may have to step down to restore the Palestinians' shattered credibility. Even that might not help. Though the Arab regimes pay lip service to their cause, blind attachment to Saddam has cost the Palestinians respect and sympathy everywhere. At the same time, the war has intensified the naked hatred between Palestinians and Israelis...
...great survivor has survived again -- just barely. Washington will eventually welcome King Hussein back into the fold despite his pro-Saddam sympathies, though it is not yet prepared to restore his $55 million 1991 aid package, suspended last month. The Saudis are less forgiving. For them, says a U.S. diplomat, Hussein "has to pay a readmission price, perform some act of obeisance." In a newspaper interview last week, Prince Bandar said those who leaned toward Saddam "must openly admit they were wrong...
Iran's Reintegration. A Western diplomat in Riyadh calls Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanjani's performance during the gulf conflict a "tour de force." By offering sanctuary to Iraqi planes, he mollified his troublesome right wing. By not returning them, he won points with the allies; he may also get to keep the jets as partial reparation for losses sustained by Iran in its own war with Iraq. In general, Iran's neutrality brought the country some international respectability, and even Washington is assessing the possibility of more cordial relations...