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Word: diplospeak (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1990
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...been fully supportive of U.S. efforts -- cutting off arms to Iraq, voting for U.N. resolutions establishing a worldwide embargo -- without claiming any major part for itself. And it has rebuffed all attempts to drive a wedge between itself and Washington. In what was officially described as a "frank" (diplospeak for stormy) meeting in Moscow with Baghdad Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz, Gorbachev repeated his insistence that there is only one way to end the crisis: unconditional Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gulf: A New World | 9/17/1990 | See Source »

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