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Free Movement. Within the past three weeks, Sadat has met with 33 U.S. Senators and Congressmen visiting the Middle East. Confirming what he had said to TIME (Nov. 29), he told one delegation, headed by Connecticut's Democratic Senator Abraham Ribicoff, that he was ready to go to a Geneva conference "without preconditions," and would sign a peace agreement with Israel. Sadat's plan also calls for total Israeli withdrawal from territory occupied since 1967, as well as United Nations peace-keeping forces to patrol the frontiers and guarantee free movement of ships in the Aqaba Gulf...
Harvard Social Psychologist Abraham Zaleznik, 52, who wrote a working paper on the development of leadership, noted that in many leaders there is a "cleavage between himself and the outer world." This creates in him "a demand that he or she accomplish something different or special." But Zaleznik conceded that the result could be destructiveness as well as great achievement...
...wife does for a living. She is a mathematician, the author explains. The Hasid has no idea what the occupation is. "Do you recognize the name of Einstein?" "Never. Who is he?" In me, reflects Bellow, "he sees what deformities the modern age can produce in the seed of Abraham. In him I see a piece of history, an antiquity...
...least 10%. Walter Burnham agrees. He contends that the two candidates have not been up to the country's thirst for leadership. He argues that the Democrats were in the best position by far to match that need, but Carter blew his natural advantage. Reaching back to Abraham Lincoln to make his point, Burnham said: "Lincoln also ran a campaign on trust and moral uplift. But he tied it to specific issues that people understood and rallied around. The issue was never Lincoln the man. In fact, Lincoln could never have won on personal glamor. Carter personalized his campaign...
When Jefferson and his co-revolutionaries declared that all men are created equal, they knew that years and miles had to be traversed before the dream could become reality. Some of the greatest Americans -Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt, Martin Luther King-are world figures principally because they strove for the realization of this dream and the extension of the privilege of equality to millions...