Word: diplomatically
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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More than Arab pressure, however, may be riling Gorbachev. Seventy percent of the work force of the departing Jews are professionals and technicians. "The brain-drain issue is really worrying the Soviet legislature," says a U.S. diplomat based in Moscow. Perhaps for that reason, the Soviet parliament last week postponed until September adoption of a new emigration law that would permit almost all Jews to leave the country. But even with the remaining restrictions, Israel is enjoying a windfall from Moscow's brain drain. The newcomers offer expertise in fields ranging from medicine and engineering to computer technology and nuclear...
...first, Aung San Suu Kyi will need to get her own political party in order. "There's no ruling out the possibility that the National League for Democracy and the opposition in general could succumb to the old Burmese disease of factionalism," warns a Western diplomat based in Rangoon. Excessive wrangling within the league would provide the military junta with a convenient excuse to delay a transfer of power...
...Xiaoping over a clutch of veteran hard- liners. Yet Deng, 85, remains locked in a paralyzing succession struggle that precludes any but the most cosmetic policy changes in the near future. "What we are seeing is the classic politics of the end of an era," says a senior Asian diplomat in Beijing. "Since the Emperor never retires, we must wait until he dies." Until then the kingdom and its subjects can do little but wait and wonder what will follow...
...extraordinarily candid commentary in the Communist theoretical magazine Qiushi (Seeking Truth) last month, "it will invite calamity or will even be forced to step down." In the absence of ambitious goals like the economic and political liberalization policies set by fallen party chief Zhao Ziyang, says a Western diplomat in Beijing, "politics becomes a question of how you achieve stability best." At the moment, two approaches are vying for approval...
...successors to Deng can spin such sentiments into a platform of action, however, as long as the so-called gang of elders is watching their every move. "It's too dangerous for one to raise his head above the crowd for fear of having it chopped off," observes a diplomat...