Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...internecine black warfare have generally sprung from local, isolated circumstances. Black groups, including such ostensibly disciplined outfits as the Panthers, are too fragmented to achieve nationwide coordination even if they wanted to. With some of the best-known militant figures exiled, jailed or dead, there is no national leadership to hold the extremists together...
...captain of a mighty host, demanding the rights to which free men are entitled." When John L. Lewis, 89, died last week at Washington, D C.'s Doctors Hospital, he had been president emeritus of the United Mine Workers since 1960. Remembering his years of active leadership, the miners appropriately honored him by walking out of the pits for a four-day period of mourning...
...opposed creation of the state-security tribunal that he was now criticizing. But Pompidou himself declined to comment on most of Poher's criticism. Like the majority of Frenchmen, Pompidou seemed less interested in the campaign windup than in looking ahead to a France under his leadership. Reconciliation. Well aware that he would need the trust of his citizens above all, Pompidou has constantly emphasized reconciliation-between Gaullists and non-Gaullists, between workers and patrons, between the presidency and the legislature, between the old France and the new. Politically, Pompidou's unity would doubtless begin at home...
...hear the West German generals tell it, their soldiers are so inept and so lacking in morale that they would scarcely be a match for the Beefeaters in the Tower of London or the halberd-bearing papal guard. Speaking to a closed session of officers at the Leadership Academy near Hamburg, Major General Helmuth Grashey complained that the Bundeswehr (literally, Federal Defense Force) is burdened with too much civilian bureaucracy and hounded by an ombudsman who undermines officers' authority by listening sympathetically to soldiers' gripes...
...extreme view has been put forward by Major Rudolf Woller, president of the Association of Bundeswehr Reservists. In a recent speech, he said: "If in the subconscious of the nation the impression takes hold that it is not really protected by the German contribution to the defense system, the leadership of the state could be forced to a change of course toward neutralism...