Word: diplomatized
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...behavior of the Syrians in the negotiations convinced U.S. diplomats that the Assad government was not interested in a fair compromise. Said a discouraged U.S. diplomat: "The Syrians are making demands designed, in effect, to steal the legitimacy of the Lebanese government." Their real aim, in the U.S. view, is to hasten Gemayel's demise and replace him with a government that Syria can control...
...Soviet embassy. Standing face to face with Sokolov, John Kelly, Deputy Assistant Secretary for European Affairs, read a terse letter that "demanded ... prompt, adequate and effective compensation" for the death of the 61 Americans aboard Flight 007. When Kelly attempted to hand Sokolov the note, the Soviet diplomat refused to accept it. Kelly then declared that the U.S. refused to accept Sokolov's refusal. The routine was repeated at week's end when Assistant Secretary of State Richard Burt called Sokolov back to the State Department and tried to give him a note protesting the Soviet refusal...
...margin, the general congregation of the Society of Jesus last week chose its new superior general: the Rev. Peter-Hans Kolvenbach, 54, a Dutch priest highly respected within the church's largest religious order of men (26,000 members) for his piety, scholarship and skills as a prudent diplomat...
...this I learned nothing that first night. I learned only later that Wang Bingnan (a hero of the revolution for arranging the Christmas 1936 kidnaping of Chiang Kaishek, later China's senior diplomat in the West) had himself been purged during the Cultural
...Ninoy was special on two accounts--because he was not a diplomat and because he stayed a second year," said Professor Leonard Unger '39, a former Ambassador to Thailand who teaches at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Diplomacy, where Aquino made appearances...