Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hardly buoyant these days. Carter is far from cocky. He is weakened politically, but that may be matched by Brezhnev's poor health and the doubt that it casts over Soviet leadership. It is a pattern in the exercise of power that in times of stress, these leaders respond in an elemental human fashion...
...discover whether he had enough support to enter the presidential race. Last week his hopeful answer appeared inevitable when his wife Keke bought him a new, dark blue suit. Proudly wearing it, Anderson, 57, the chairman of the House Republican Conference and thus third-ranking member in the leadership, became the seventh G.O.P. candidate.* Said the ten-term Congressman: "I have been in the leadership for ten years. After watching Carter, I have no reservation about my ability...
...Commons, Norman St. John-Stevas, is one who thinks so. "There is something like a vacuum in world leadership that John Paul might well be able to fill," says St. John-Stevas, a Catholic layman. He believes the world is "suffering from spiritual starvation and bereft of moral leadership. The gods of secularism and materialism have failed to satisfy, and mankind is looking for new perspectives...
...senior British diplomat who admires Schmidt complains that the new West German leadership is still too narrowly focused on national interest instead of international cooperation. Says he: "We haven't yet seen the wider vision. It is still 'Germany First.' And the German stand ?like Scarlett O'Hara's vow that 'I'm never going to be hungry again...
...assembly will be organized not on national but on party lines. The Socialists, led by Brandt, are expected to win about 130 of the 410 seats. The Christian Democrats, with Tindemans bidding for leadership, are counting on around 100 members. Italy's Altiero Spinelli, a former Common Market commissioner and now a Communist candidate, says that parliamentary majorities will be formed "by country on some issues, by party on others, and on others by Europe itself...