"You don't need to ask who is a Jew, your neighbor knows," said a retired senior diplomat.

"The whole thing has obviously gone out of control," a retired Indian diplomat said today.

The administration has sought retired diplomats with a history in the area.

In recent times the Governor has either been a retired diplomat or senior military officer.

One man who identified himself as a retired diplomat said the personal property of offenders should be burned before their eyes.

Then, in late 1994 or early 1995, in walked the retired Russian diplomat with his story.

Hague says he would like to find some way of making use of retired diplomats more regularly.

A retired diplomat who had restored her vintage house signed up as a Habitat volunteer.

Since 1985 he has conducted over a thousand oral histories of retired American diplomats.

He has conducted some 1,000 oral histories of retired American diplomats whose careers range from the 1920s to the present.