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...early 1980s, Gore cleared eight hours a week on his schedule to study arms control, wheedling the country's premier experts to give him tutorials and ultimately making his mark in the nuclear debate with an idea for the single-warhead missile to stabilize the arms race. Leon Fuerth, a former foreign-service officer who landed on the staff of the House Intelligence Committee, oversaw his education and has remained with Gore since--making Fuerth a force in his own right in the Clinton White House and the presumptive favorite for National Security Adviser in a Gore Administration...
Working mostly by phone and fax with Berger and three other foreign policy analysts -- Michael Mandelbaum, Nancy Soderberg and Leon Fuerth -- Lake limited his traveling to Thursday through Monday so he could continue teaching. Clinton gave speeches stressing mainstream foreign policy themes: promoting democracy, a strong but revamped defense and the need for creative thinking on global problems like the environment. He counterpunched on Iraqgate and Irangate. On a few carefully chosen issues like aid to Russia, the need to help Somalia, and punishing Serbia for "ethnic cleansing" in Bosnia, the Democrat took positions slightly forward of Bush...
...whom the adjective 'great' can be applied with sincerity." Belgian Foreign Minister Renaat van Elslande presented Kissinger with a reproduction of a Latin encyclopedia from the year 1120; West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher gave him a 1642 engraving of Kissinger's birthplace, Fuerth, Germany...
HEINZ Kissinger was born in the small village of Fuerth, in Franconia, on May 27, 1923. His father was a professor at the gymnasium, or prep school, in Fuerth; his Jewish upbringing was marked by an early respect for scholarship. But by 1930, the Nazis had seized power in Franconia, and after eight years of social torture and humiliation, the Kissinger family was forced to abandon its home and migrate to America...