The defection caused a diplomatic quandary for China, which is trying to deepen its relatively new friendship with South Korea while not forsaking its old Communist ally, North Korea.

A8 The Clinton Administration, having announced its intention to devote $10.5 billion to missile defenses over the next six years, faces a major diplomatic and military quandary in Asia, where potential deployment of interceptor missiles risks increasing tensions with China.

Having planned a major outlay for defensive missiles, the Clinton Administration now faces a major diplomatic and military quandary with China.

Mr. Solis's unusually blunt statements reopened one of the country's most sensitive diplomatic quandaries.

General Noriega's decision to seek political asylum immediately created an enormous diplomatic quandary.

But as the vacation period ends and the tourists confront the choice between returning in time for the reopening of factories and schools or not returning, a diffuse flow has become a concentration and a diplomatic quandary that Hungary cannot pretend to ignore.

The drive for independence in Lithuania and the other Baltic states has presented the United States with a diplomatic quandary, Administration officials said today.

The delicate diplomatic quandary is reflected in the visit here by Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright last August.

He was caught in the middle of a diplomatic quandary of the most delicate kind, and he was now well aware that the Etolosans regarded their contact with ancestral enemies as some sort of holy imperative.

Justice Department lawyers had considered going to court to ask a federal judge to enforce the immigration ruling in an effort to resolve quickly what has evolved into a highly emotional, extremely difficult political and diplomatic quandary.