Word: globally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...international prestige and influence, West Germany is certainly a nation on the way up. Many West Germans believe their country's ascendancy is due partly to a conscious decision by Schmidt to take up the slack of what he has perceived as weak U.S. leadership that has diminished global confidence in the Carter Administration...
Always sensitive to historic European misgivings about the Germans, Helmut Schmidt is careful to play down Bonn's emerging political strength. But last week, as he ranged across a series of other global and strategic questions in an exclusive interview with TIME Bonn Bureau Chief William Mader, the Chancellor himself sound ed every bit like a great-power leader. Excerpts...
...Cold War and McCarthy scared many of us into believing that gullibility was a greater vice than servility or calculated careerism. Yet, political leaders of the Class of '54 are among the most idealistic in Congress, struggling against the politics of self-interest toward a still blurred vision of global interdependence and the responsibility of those favored by nature and history to the rest of humanity. "I wasn't a radical when I was young," Robert Frost told us, "so I don't have to be a reactionary when...
...McNamara's convictions have deepened, and last week, appearing at the University of Chicago to accept a $25,000 prize for promoting international understanding, the former Defense Secretary declared that "excessive military spending can reduce security rather than strengthen it." Reason: the outlays swallow resources needed to reduce global poverty...
...Global defense expenditures have grown so large that it is difficult to grasp their full dimensions. The overall total is now in excess of $400 billion a year." The nearly $30 billion spent annually on arms research and development is more than "is spent on the problems of energy, health, education and food combined." Does the money buy greater security? McNamara asked. "No. At these exaggerated levels, only greater risk, greater danger, and greater delay in getting on with life's real purposes...