Word: diplomatically
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...West, they are taken seriously in Saudi Arabia, and his denunciation of women drivers amounted to a declaration of war. "There is a growing concern by religious conservatives that modern, foreign-educated technocrats will try to use the gulf crisis to push ahead with social reforms," says a Western diplomat in Riyadh. "They see the issue of women's driving as the first step in that direction...
...political movement that began in 1988 is effectively over now," says an Asian diplomat. Says a Western official: "One by one they have knocked off the challenges to the regime, from the League to the monks." The consensus in Rangoon is that the junta can survive any sanctions its Western critics may impose for as long as the military leaders are determined...
...Arab diplomat in Washington, these pronouncements meant that "Bush is building a one-sided case for war." To an official of Israel's governing Likud Party, the same words signified that the U.S. was getting cold feet. Said he: "The longer Bush waits, the harder it will be for the U.S. to go to war." At home too the President faced growing demands to spell out whether he was in fact taking the nation to war and, if so, for what goals...
Some American officials are suggesting that they are prepared to rewrite the rules for Pakistan. Cutting off assistance, says a senior U.S. diplomat, "could be provocative and produce more in the nuclear field than continuing aid would." Now that Pakistan has the Bomb, he argues, the U.S. should strive for "confidence that the program is frozen" and not expanded to build more and bigger weapons...
...link his annexation of Kuwait with the Israelis' occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. A direct linkage would be disastrous, but given the depth of Arab fury over the carnage in Jerusalem, a strong connection already exists whether Washington likes it or not. Said a senior British diplomat: "The Arab-Israeli problem is now openly a part of the gulf crisis...