Word: diplomatized
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...week was a tense and painful one for the government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. The British public was outraged by the murder of the policewoman, Constable Yvonne Fletcher, 25, and by the thought that the Libyan "diplomat" who had fired an automatic weapon into a crowd of anti-Gaddafi demonstrators should go unpunished. Even as the diplomats of the two countries were preparing to fly home on Friday afternoon, the funeral of Constable Fletcher was being held at the 13th century Salisbury Cathedral in southern England...
...Deng has forced China out of the ethnocentricity developed over two millenniums of imperial supremacy and resuscitated by the almost religious xenophobia of Mao, while urging it to look outward for its economic models. "The Chinese have rediscovered that they are the center of the world," observes a Western diplomat in Peking. "They have put themselves in the position of being courted by everyone...
...Zhao Ziyang as Premier. Now most experts agree that although the "open door" will continue to swing on its hinges, it has been open so wide for so long that even if the leftists could close it again, they would only lock in Deng's changes. Says a Western diplomat in Peking: "If you gave Deng a 20% chance of succeeding in 1978, you would give him an 85% chance...
...ambitions, moreover, seem almost limitless: they aim to quadruple the gross national product, double the nation's output of energy, and raise per capita annual income from the present $300 to $800 by the year 2000. "Deng sees the Mao era as an interregnum between dynasties," notes a Western diplomat in Peking. "He sees his own epoch as the real beginning of the People's Republic...
...charges have been difficult to verify, since foreign journalists have been barred from the troubled area and the local press is government controlled. Reporters have had to rely on sporadic accounts by refugees and occasional covert excursions into the curfew area to talk to locals. A Western diplomat told TIME last week that the British press reports had exaggerated the stories of killings and massacres in the territory. He said there had been a few hundred deaths as a result of army atrocities in recent months, but not the thousands some have alleged...