Tells about the economic & diplomatic effects of Watergate, & that the President has pledged to stop the bombing of Cambodia by Aug. 15, in response to Congressional pressure.
When Mr. Obama revealed in September that Iran had been caught building a secret nuclear enrichment plant, deep inside a mountain on a military base near Qum, many officials thought the revelation would have severe diplomatic effects.
But nobody foresaw a full-blown crisis whose human and diplomatic effects have stunned the nation.The kidnapping of two French journalists by the Islamic Army of Iraq, which demanded an end to the headscarf ban, prompted a massive diplomatic effort to secure their release.
The nuclear agreement has yet to have a diplomatic domino effect.
These days, she's more diplomatic, the effect, perhaps, of working in a bipartisan outfit, though with Ms. Richards you never know.
Public opinion can help keep attention on these countries and avoid some of the international-diplomatic-fashion effect, where attention flits from one country to another.
A disillusioned 23-year-old American official, Bradley Manning, downloaded from a supposedly secure government network more than 250,000 diplomatic "cables": in effect, government e-mails.
While it is tempting to dismiss the latest revelations with an everyone-does-it shrug, American officials now concede that the uproar in Europe about the N.S.A.'s programs — both the popular outrage and a more calculated political response by Ms. Merkel and France's president, François Hollande — may have a broader diplomatic and economic effect than they first imagined.
Dysfunction at the Department of State results in diplomatic incidents whose effects ripple outwards at nearly the speed of light in the age of social media.
