Word: masterfulness
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...violent American response to the Achille Lauro incident has brought Italians and other Europeans to the realization that our relationship with the U.S. resembles one between a master and a servant. Your President is being referred to as the emperor or "Rambo Reagan." In a little more than a week, America has managed to offend and alienate three of its allies: Tunisia, Egypt and Italy. I think the U.S. action is a sort of Guinness record in diplomatic failures. Valerio Ciuffa Verona, Italy...
Thus Reagan's preparations have been calculatedly low-keyed. His master briefing book is augmented by two dozen concise background memos, each bound in black vinyl and covering a specific aspect of U.S.S.R. affairs ("Russia's Place in the World: the View from Moscow," "Soviet and Russian Psychology: Some Common Traits"). Aides under Chief White House Kremlinologist John Matlock Jr. are preparing several videotapes, mostly profiling key Soviet participants, including a lengthy one of Gorbachev in public appearances. Although Soviet Defector Arkady Shevchenko was invited to a presidential lunch recently, one-on-one sit-downs between Reagan and pedagogic experts...
...more influence in this role than anyone other than Gromyko. Largely out of sight in Gorbachev's early tenure, Alexandrov has since emerged at his leader's side in important diplomatic meetings. Alexandrov is a talented linguist, fluent in six languages, including English. A stickler for detail and a master of phrasing, he has been a top speechwriter for the recent Soviet leaders...
According to his CIA biography, released at the end of last week, Yurchenko, 49, is indeed a master spy. He served as a submarine navigation officer for a year before joining the KGB in 1960. After several assignments in naval counterintelligence and security, he became in 1972 deputy chief of the third department of the KGB's Third Chief Directorate, a daunting mouthful that essentially meant Yurchenko helped recruit and run foreign agents. Yurchenko came to Washington in 1975, charged with overseeing security arrangements for the embassy. In 1980 Yurchenko returned to Moscow, where he became head of the section...
...crown in his hometown, vs. the crowd-pleasing, passionate young provincial up for a title shot. Intensifying the tension was old-fashioned human loathing. Long before the end of the match, the contestants were barely speaking to each other, and shook hands perfunctorily. "The best part," a chess master told the Chicago Tribune, "is that these guys hate each other...