Word: foreign
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...Foreign Office spokesperson, speaking anonymously in keeping with British custom, said Britain had not planned to make the expulsions public and did so only after the Soviets retaliated...
...Saturday night, Braithwaite was summoned to the Soviet Foreign Ministry and told that 11 Britons were being expelled, said the British Embassy's political counselor, Roderic Lyne...
...London, Sir Geoffrey Howe, Britain's foreign minister, called Britain's action "a measured action in respect of established misbehavior" and termed the Soviet response unjustified. Howe said Britain has "incontrovertible evidence" of wrongdoing by the expelled Soviets...
Asked why the British government kept its expulsions quiet, the Foreign Office spokesman said, "We look at these on a case-by-case basis and in this case we decided not to initiate publicity. But obviously once [the Soviets] retaliated, it just broke...
Sununu pointed to the United States' good relations with China as evidence of Bush's foreign policy prowess. "The greatest asset this President brings to the White House is his experience in foreign policy," Sununu said...