Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...celebrations in two Africa countries: Gabon and Zambia. Mr. Croft also quoted from a speech Engelhard delivered in Johannesburg: "Fuller use must be made of potential skills and capacities of all peoples who make up the population of South Africa. And this calls for more widespread education so that leadership and ability can develop in all sections of the community, and the non-European must have the opportunity to improve his standard of living, if he is to be encouraged to work alongside the European." Mr. Croft further reported that The New York Times quoted Engelhard as saying: "South Africa...
...other consideration (with the exception of defense), focusing the President's energies as never before and relegating some of his evangelism on such things as tax reform and Government reorganization to the dim corners, it not oblivion. Carter has been compelled to choose, the very crux of leadership. He has declared inflation the principal adversary of America. He has chosen the battleground and marshaled all of his considerable energy and talent for the effort...
...being written these days on leadership by such experts as Rutgers Emmet thread Hughes and Williams' James MacGregor Burns. A common thread that binds their thoughtful expositions is that successful leadership is a state of mind Leadership a speech; it is a hundred decisions, not a single act. Leadership is a march down a long road, not always in a straight line, but always directed to ward some distant landmark. Finally, leadership involves total belief and commitment...
...national unity. Gradually, the crowds at "democracy wall" grew smaller and less demonstrative. Yet even if there were no more public challenges to Maoist orthodoxy, foreign observers were left with two distinct impressions. One was that Peking's outbreak of poster politics had been tacitly authorized by the leadership of the Communist Party. The other was that the pragmatic policies of Teng, now the dominant leader of the world's most populous nation, enjoyed wide support among the Chinese masses...
...posters and demonstrations left LACK STAR little doubt that Teng had a popular base of support should he choose to restructure China's leadership by seizing the premiership. When a British journalist asked a group of Peking citizens whom they would vote for as Premier if there were free elections, they quickly shouted back the answer: "Teng Hsiao-p'ing! Teng Hsiao-p'ing!" Teng himself dismissed the calls for his elevation in an oblique, Olympian answer that was worthy of Mao himself: "This is a normal thing and shows the stable situation in our country...