Word: infirmity
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...Manly Hand Holding Joe Klein's column "the perils of Hands-On Diplomacy" [May 9] called attention to the photo of President Bush walking down an uneven path in Texas hand in hand with the infirm 80-year-old Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. There is nothing "unmanly"?as Klein characterized it?in extending a helping hand. Klein seems to lack any cultural awareness of the world outside the U.S. Dan Bloom Chiayi, Taiwan...
...have to recover from anything very poisonous. Peter Terry Kelvin, South Africa Manly Hand-Holding Joe Klein's column "the perils of Hands-On Diplomacy" [May 9] called attention to the photo of President Bush walking down an uneven path in Texas hand in hand with the infirm 80-year-old Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. There is nothing "unmanly" - as Klein characterized it - in extending a helping hand. Klein seems to lack any cultural awareness of the world outside the U.S. Dan Bloom Chiayi, Taiwan Klein was insightful in asking if Bush might have done better to concentrate...
...Klein's column "The Perils of Hands-On Diplomacy" [May 9] called attention to the photo of President Bush walking down an uneven path in Texas hand in hand with the infirm 80-year-old Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. There is nothing "unmanly"-as Klein characterized it-in extending a helping hand. Klein seems to lack any cultural awareness of the world outside...
...they do. Indeed, the folks at the White House told me that the President and the infirm 80-year-old Crown Prince were walking on an uneven path in Texas, the prince reached out for support and ... anyway, to reject Abdullah's hand would have been ungracious, and the President will always choose courtesy over ungraciousness--even if the image conveys the subconscious message that the oily Saudis are so important to the U.S. economy that President Macho is willing to act in an unmanly fashion in order to keep them happy...
...Lady Wright, the Ambassador and his wife, who are the official hosts of the royal couple, Charles and Diana went their separate ways. He went to the American Institute of Architects and she, accompanied by Barbara Bush, visit ed the Washington Home, a residence for the elderly and infirm. Inside the striking cement-and-glass A.I. A. headquarters, Charles heard about one of his pet subjects, the revitalization of urban areas. After the round-table discussion, the Prince strolled over to the Octagon House, built in 1801, to peruse the two-page Treaty of Ghent ("Quite a long...