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Gorbachev is the ablest of the Soviet leaders I've met. He's charismatic, eloquent and highly intelligent. If he were a candidate in our elections, he'd be a surefire winner. He's even interested in reforms. But he's not a philanthropist. So why is he accepting the zero option? Why is he willing to give up more intermediate-range warheads than we would have to give...
...weeks Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi has been under fire for his party's poor performance in recent state elections and for his high-handed treatment of Indian politicians. Last week Gandhi sparked the gravest crisis of his career by forcing Defense Minister V.P. Singh, widely regarded as the ablest and most honest member of the Cabinet, to resign. Singh stepped down after he was bitterly attacked by Gandhi loyalists for authorizing probes into illegal financial dealings and military-contract kickbacks that promised to embarrass the Prime Minister...
...might be "playing into the hands of the Communists" by supporting "an indefinite extension of military rule rather than a transition to democracy." Abrams said that he had approved Barnes' attendance at the funeral. State Department Spokesman Bernard Kalb pointedly described Barnes as "one of the most experienced and ablest of U.S. ambassadors...
Peter Alexander Rupert Carrington will address Harvard's 336th Commencement exercises today, one day before his 67th birthday. The day's events will leave more of a mark on the graduating seniors than on one of the best and ablest diplomats in the Western Hemisphere...
During Aquino's 28-year marriage to one of the Philippines' ablest political figures, she seemed quite content to be a housewife and mother, and she was a genuinely reluctant presidential candidate. But she managed to channel widespread dissatisfaction with Marcos into a steamroller campaign that in the end swept him from power. U.S. pressure on Marcos surely helped, as did the last-minute defections of Enrile and Ramos. But at the center of it all was Aquino: petite, polite, increasingly self-assured, a woman who spoke for a country, molding an inchoate popular movement into a winning political force...