Word: governance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...resignation as Secretary of State and on the part played by National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski in that stunningly timed departure. In the following exclusive interview with TIME Washington Correspondent Gregory Wierzynski, Kissinger talks of the tensions that arise between the two powerful jobs, suggests some rules that should govern relations between the Security Adviser and the Secretary, and confesses how he realized belatedly that he had violated most of them. Finally, he discusses some directions that the new man at Foggy Bottom might pursue in formulating U.S. foreign policy at this critical time...
Still, the thought of every home with hanging plants, every living room with varnished wood floors and Design Research hangings has locals worried. "The city could become more uniform, more homogeneous," Mayor Francis H. Duehay '55 says, adding, "In some ways it would be easier to govern, but it will certainly be much less interesting." Meanwhile, as tenants are evicted throughout the city, "there could be tremendous individual human suffering," Sullivan adds. "Twenty-five per cent of the city's apartment dwellers could be evicted in the next decade--suffering on that magnitude could make the problems before rent control...
Lawyers for the city and for individual tenants replied that the statute, which requires developers to obtain a permit before converting apartments to condominiums, was passed in the face of an emergency housing shortage and did not directly govern property relationships...
...Court also sentenced seven codefendants to terms ranging from 12 years to life imprisonment for what it ruled was support of the movement for Taiwanese independence and for plotting to overthrow the Chinese govern nationalist government...
...Theodore Sorensen, President Kennedy's speechwriter, insisted, "For the first time, we are beginning to see almost a total separation of the qualities needed to win elections and the qualities required to govern effectively...