Word: diplomatized
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...United Nations official in Beirut last week by Yasser Arafat, chief of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Like Lebanese officials, Arafat was angered by the failure of UNIFIL, the 7,000-strong U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon, to mount more than token resistance to the Israeli invasion. Declared a Western diplomat: null credibility was a bit weak before. Now it has suffered a real blow...
...extended to European countries that have backed Britain with economic and military sanctions against Argentina. The West Germans, who trade heavily with South America, have even dispatched a Cabinet minister on a troubleshooting tour of Latin America to explain Bonn's support of Britain. A French diplomat noted that the government of President François Mitterrand "has made one of its central foreign policy goals that of improving North-South relations. To the extent that the Falklands retard that, everyone loses...
Surveying the bloodshed in Beirut, one appalled Western diplomat asked: "If this is vengeance, then what happened to [the biblical injunction] 'an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth?' " In battered Lebanon, at least, the arithmetic of Israeli retribution-100 for 1-seemed tragically askew. In Israel, however, many officials and ordinary citizens felt the raids were an appropriate response to the coldblooded shooting of Argov. It was the latest in a series of attacks on Israeli envoys. On April 3, an Israeli embassy official in Paris named Ya'acov Barsimantov, who was said...
...promotion because, he was told, "you have violated the rules governing contact with foreigners." The technician had failed to report associating with a foreign friend to the lab's security department. For foreigners, too, the new restrictions have been noxious and unsettling. "You never know," says one diplomat, "when simply inviting a Chinese over to your house for an innocent lunch could get him into difficulties for the rest of his life...
...senior diplomat in Washington quickly dismissed the study as "garbage." Said State Department Spokesman Alan Romberg: "We reject the charge that the U.S. was party to any fraud. Nor did any of those countless observers on the site of the elections suggest there was fraud." Romberg cited as a "key error" the claim that it took voters 2½ to three minutes each to cast their ballots. A more likely estimate, he said, ranged between 30 seconds and one minute...