Last week, as every week for the past few months, the U.S. through its State Department spoke out to the world. Some of its speaking was done on minor issues; sometimes the Department's enthusiasm ran away with it, as when it reprimanded the Swedes for signing a trade agreement with Russia. The Swedes' justifiable reply: that's our business.
But most of the minor statements fitted in with the larger program: to call the Russians at every turn.
ΒΆ To Yugoslavia, which was ready to let the plane-shooting incident be lost in diplomacy's shuffle, went a tart note from Acting Secretary of State...
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