Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hedley Donovan, 65, recently retired editor-in-chief of Time Inc., to serve as a Senior Adviser to the President. Donovan will have broad responsibilities in both domestic and foreign affairs and will report directly to the President. Veteran Washington observers could not recall any exact precedent for such an assignment...
Fireworks had been expected in the Senate's SALT II hearings as they shifted last week from the generally sympathetic Foreign Relations Committee to the Armed Services Committee. Not only is the Armed Services panel more familiar with the weaponry covered by SALT, but also a number of committee members have been outspoken critics of the accord. Yet the treaty had smooth sailing last week, except for occasional heated exchanges sparked by Senator Henry ("Scoop") Jackson, the powerful Democrat from the state of Washington, who is a leading SALT...
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH, economist: On health care, on industrial concentration, on foreign policy, arms control and refugee matters, I don't think anyone strikes as many sparks and brings along as many people as Edward Kennedy...
CORETTA SCOTT KING, civil rights activist: In terms of impacting the crucial foreign policy issues we face, I believe Andrew Young deserves special recognition. For the first time in American history, the people of the developing nations have a highly committed spokesman to represent their interests to the President and the American people...
IRVING KRISTOL, neoconservative writer: There's no question that Henry Kissinger elevated the discussion of American foreign policy. There aren't many individuals-George Kennan in his prime was one-who apply mind to foreign policy as against just opinion, and Kissinger is certainly...