Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would it? Newly minted Presidential Candidate John Connally, who comes out of the assertive Southwest border tradition, probably would have handled the matter differently. Or so he indicated last week as he roared through his native land, proclaiming that "we seem to have lost our zest for strong leadership-we have to recapture our pride and self-respect before others can feel...
...Oriental 20th century Sparta intent on becoming gendarme and ruler of all it can grasp. One mystery: How do the Vietnamese maintain that martial impulse after more than 30 years of constant warfare? Part of the answer derives from who has the upper hand in the collective leadership that succeeded Ho Chi Minh. The eleven-man Politburo is divided between pragmatists who want to concentrate on internal reconstruction and hard-liners who are bent on military adventure, despite the gruesome hardships involved. The hardliners, led by pro-Soviet Party Boss Le Duan and Defense Minister Vo Nguyen Giap...
...suffer with dedication." Last week truckloads of war-wounded and dead returning from the Chinese border and from Cambodia testified that the suffering was far from over. One unanswered, and perhaps unanswerable, question is how dedicated the 51 million citizens of the Vietnamese Socialist Republic remain to a leadership that has been unable to create a stable or prosperous country even after four years of relative peace...
...club--like the Student Assembly--is not big enough to make a difference," Artson remarked recently. "But we have to build the group back up again in the right fashion." And Mills, new secretary of the club and the only freshman to emerge from the carnage with a top leadership position, is confident that the wounds are healing. "But I'm worried about next year's elections," he added, observing that most of the club officers are sophomores and might become embroiled in internal politics once again...
...themselves. About half of the club's members are freshmen; almost none in high positions is a junior or senior. If the freshmen members become disillusioned with the club's inactivity as quickly as their predecessors did, more internal turmoil can be expected. On the other hand, the new leadership of the club, combined with the upcoming Presidential primaries, could provide an unparalleled opportunity to make the club as effective as it was three years...