Word: diplomatized
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...under Paramount Leader Deng Xiaoping, 81, to introduce free enterprise into his nation's economy. In the Chinese press, the openness and variety of criticisms leveled at the party over the past two months have been breathtaking. "The only area that is effectively barred from discussion," said one Western diplomat, "is the party's right to rule...
...that were not enough, Pretoria's official exports within the continent have risen by 40% this year, and promise to reach a record $800 million. Any Western blow against South Africa could amount to a killer blow against many of the so-called frontline states. Warns a South African diplomat in London: "Whereas it would take years, perhaps longer, to bring South Africa's economy to its knees, those of the frontline states could be in shambles within months...
...reverberate through most of his books: the impact of a family's guilty past and the doomed meeting of the industrialized and the underdeveloped worlds. Both themes merge, stunningly, in Tefuga, the story of a British journalist's trip to Africa to make a docudrama about his parents--a diplomat and his young artist wife whose well-meant meddling provoked a long-ago international incident. The journalist's unveiling of how colonist and native took advantage of peculiarities in the other's mental makeup provides the revelatory pleasures of a mystery. Dickinson also manages to evoke the evolution of feminism...
...firings were the result of widespread disappointment with the government's economic failures. The prime victim of the purge was Deputy Premier To Huu, 66, who is believed to have been responsible for last year's 90% devaluation of the currency. Said a Western diplomat in Bangkok: "Criticism from the grass roots has been mounting, and the leadership had to do something...
...only power in a position to exert influence over Israel. Therefore the U.S. and the Arabs still need the help and cooperation of each other. But this is not much comfort at a time of such desperately flagging spirits. Surveying the political landscape last week, a senior British diplomat concluded, "The prospects for a Middle East settlement are worse than they have been for a very long time...