Word: diplomatized
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...officers and troops remaining may be more afraid of the Iraqi masses -- and the Kurdish and Shi'ite dissidents -- than they are of Saddam. An Arab diplomat relates a conversation that occurred when the Iraqi dictator visited his capital well before the invasion of Kuwait. Saddam, says the diplomat, told his hosts that he had no illusions: if he ever fell from power, the mobs would so shred his body that not a piece of him larger than a fingertip would survive. But, he added, he had warned his subordinates that exactly the same thing would happen to them...
...only against each other. They might join in slaughtering the Sunni Muslims in central Iraq from whom Saddam has drawn the elite of his regime. "It would make Kuwaiti brutality against the Palestinians ((who supported Iraqi occupation or were suspected of doing so)) seem mild," says a senior British diplomat...
...current leaders could aspire to replace him. Fault lines have already begun to show in the loosely united anti-Gamsakhurdia alliance, especially between the politicians and the paramilitary men. "The council's only uniting factor has been opposition to Gamsakhurdia," said a British diplomat. "Now that he is gone, they are falling out among themselves." Not all its members are equally committed to parliamentary democracy and presidential rule. Georgi Chanturia, the radical leader of the National Democratic Party, calls for a constitutional monarchy. Others advocate various forms of theocracy, uniting the Georgian Orthodox Church and the state...
...track. He publicly praised the takeover as a "democratic revolution" and promised "to devote all my energy to starting a movement of international support for building a democratic Georgia." Shevardnadze would certainly lend any post-Gamsakhurdia leadership the kind of authority it needs in the West. But the veteran diplomat suffers from one major handicap: he may be too closely identified with the Kremlin to suit his intensely nationalistic compatriots...
...apologies. But a shake-up in the top military command solidifying Serb dominance led to fresh worries that the army might not fully support the cease-fire. As the U.N. dispatched observers over the weekend to monitor the fragile peace, the truce appeared to be holding. Said a European diplomat in Zagreb: "Every quiet day is a great gift; we've all learned to be modest in our hopes...