Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...West accepts the situation that Solzhenitsyn criticizes--the lack of courageous, independent decision-making, the absence of strong leadership and moral certitude--precisely because it prefers to muddle along as democratically, and with as much respect for the unorthodox, as possible. Again, while Solzhenitsyn denounces the uncontrolled power of the Western press to distribute superficial and misleading information hastily, the West cannot see this point; it speaks out instead for a press that is as independent as possible. Alternate visions of reality, it knows, depend on alternative sets of data, on the free exchange of information, on diversity...
Kennedy can give us what we need most, inspirational leadership...
...Politics of Tobacco" [Aug. 21] is a prime example of the non-leadership Jimmy Carter brings to the U.S. While he's off courting votes among the North Carolina tobacco farmers and claiming back in Washington that his Administration is behind preventive medicine, millions of cigarette smokers are puffing their way to the grave...
That is happening in the Jaycees, the big (377,500 members) organization of young (18 to 35) boosters dedicated to community service and what they call "leadership training." Though they began admitting blacks in the 1940s and seeking blue-collar recruits in the 1960s, the Jaycees have always relegated women to non-voting associate memberships or auxiliaries called Jayceettes...
With the Cardinals still behind locked doors, Vaticanologists could only guess at how a long shot like Luciani had been thrust so suddenly into the most power ful position in Christendom, the leadership of the world's 700 million Roman Catholics. When Paul died at his summer villa in Castel Gandolfo three weeks ago, there seemed to be a front rank of about half a dozen contending Cardinals, a second echelon of another six or so, and a dozen or more dark horses. Not until about a week before the conclave convened did the Patriarch of Venice begin to emerge...