Word: leaders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Aged and cantankerous Meany was, but there is not a labor leader in the land who says he will not be missed. "George Meany is the AFL-CIO," asserts Fred Kroll, president of the railway, airline and steamship clerks' union. No one ever questioned Meany's dedication to the movement. The second of ten children of an Irish family in The Bronx, Meany became an apprentice plumber at 16. He soon proved as skilled at manipulating people as pipes. Stolid in appearance, sometimes slow of speech, he was easy to underestimate. But in any encounter, few rivals could...
...lead. He was not timid, nor did he lack courage. "You will be measured in this town," he said to me once, "by the enemies you destroy. The bigger they are, the bigger you will be." Connally relished combat. Whatever one might think of his views, he was a leader...
...peaceful relations," but claimed that "the troubled and uncertain times between our two countries are gone forever." López Portillo was slightly less euphoric in his response. He noted that "frank and open communication" was necessary to enhance "the possibilities of peaceful coexistence" between the neighbors. The Mexican leader could...
Because there is no other route to power, those with political ambitions must work their way up the P.R.I, ladder, slavishly following the policies of their superiors until a leader who shares their ideology assumes the presidency. As a result, new presidents are assured the unwavering support of the P.R.I, party structure...
...bureaucracy as soon as they take office. For six years, Mexico's chief executive rules more as a monarch than an elected leader of a democratic society. Says a ranking U.S. diplomat: "You look at the Mexican constitution and you see three branches of government. But they are not what they appear to be. The President has virtually all the power...