Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Brezhnev's leadership is more conservative. Today the policy is strength. Military defense. We don't know how effective we will be in war, but in peacetime--we have the greatest army and navy in the world. It [the military] seems to be the only thing in which we are most effective. Education, medicine, agriculture--we are not effective. Every year they get worse and worse...
...largely because of the groundswell of anti-Soviet feeling, Peking may have more friends on Capitol Hill these days than Moscow. Moreover, many legislators, like the Chinese, do not share the Administration's determination to protect SALT. The Peking leadership sees SALT as a trap into which the Soviets have lured the U.S. The principal sponsor of the 1974 amendment linking trade with emigration was Henry Jackson, who also happens to be both the leading opponent of SALT and proponent of closer ties with China. Thus the Administration faces the disagreeable possibility that Congress, skillfully lobbied by the Chinese...
Mounting national suspicions of the Soviets and the sense that we are losing our leadership position have cast a long shadow over the final outcome of SALT II. It may be, Warnke muses, as critical a time in our national life as we have faced since the end of World...
...pilot of that plane was Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, taking a long, perhaps last look at the capital of his realm. For years he had lived under the illusion that he was a monarch beloved by his 34 million subjects; for years he had harbored the conviction that his leadership was bringing all the benefits of national wealth and well-being to a backward nation. In the end, it had come to this: he departed hated, vilified, denounced. After 37 years on the Peacock Throne, he had been ignominiously driven out of Iran. The public face he put upon...
...Vietnamese last week continued mopping up, no trace of the Kampuchean leadership could be found. Pol Pot himself was reported in Siem Reap. Observers suspected that he and other leaders, acting on contingency plans, had slipped away to the mountains of the Elephant Range along the coast, a favorite retreat in old guerrilla days...