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...final point. I think that it's a horrible kind of conclusion to reach, and I wish I personally hadn't reached it, but you have to at some point come to a judgment in your own mind whether a lot of the issues we're talking about are...discreet problems, that can in fact be solved...whether you think...international relations is more a set of conditions which are managed for better or for worse and kind of for the most part never go away....I personally think international relations is much more the latter...
...heads a newspaper syndicate and is president of his nation's most powerful association of business interests. Still, aging Fritz Tolm is a good choice for the job. He is not one of those suspect postwar tycoons who have had their SS tattoos removed by a discreet plastic surgeon. He ran a liberal paper, has been a scholarly author (The Rhenish Farmhouse in the Nineteenth Century), and is a bird watcher and armchair environmentalist. So the profits and honors roll in, the guilty conscience thrives, and poor old Tolm gives up bicycle riding because he cannot go out without...
...best tradition of her genre, Warner recalls old gardens and village churches and eccentric nannies and a dotty old major, a bit the worse for duty in India, and, yes, her dogs. When she died in the Dorset village of Maiden Newton in 1978, discreet as an old teacup at the age of 84, she already passed for an Edwardian relic, inhabiting, in her own words, a "long, long ago, when there was a Tzar in Russia, and scarcely an automobile or a divorced person in Mayfair...
Less than 24 hours after Manotoc vanished, President Marcos phoned the young man's father to ask him to be "discreet" and contact neither the press nor the police. But Carmen Manotoc, the missing bridegroom's mother, spoke out, blaming the Marcoses directly for the kidnaping. Said she: "I couldn't think of anything else but them. I kept warning him, 'You're playing with fire, you're way over your head.' " President Marcos angrily denied the charges and denounced what he called "wild and false speculations insinuating the involvement of the President...
...Twenty other Muslim fundamentalists went on trial with them, and possibly hundreds more conspired. The West grieved, perhaps more than his countrymen did, for the loss of Sadat's vision and will. Yet the peace process he began, with an act of statesmanlike courage, struggles on under his discreet, cautious successor...