Word: mentor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite Western Europe's strong reaction to the accusations, there is little new in them. Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, in recognizing 1973 as the "year of Europe" for U.S. policy, expressed similar anxieties about an increasingly neutralist Western Europe. Eagleburger has long shared his onetime mentor's views, and has been restating them privately in recent months. His reasons for speaking out now, at a moment of relative quiet in transatlantic relations, may be as much personal as diplomatic. The Under Secretary, at 53, is widely believed to be planning to leave Government service...
...Keverian claims that McGee violated a trust when he announced that, far from abdicating, he had every intention of seeking re-election as Speaker in 1985. Betrayed by his mentor, Keverian threw down the gauntlet last October, proclaiming that he would oppose McGee as a rival candidate in the future election. Keverian's challenge had an immediate polarizing effect on the House, as representatives scurried to choose up sides. The battle lines were fairly well drawn only days later when McGee drew first blood: Keverian was sacked as Majority Leader and demoted to the status of rank and file member...
...replacement: George Washington, who dominated the American Revolution and its young visitor. After helping the U.S. gain independence, Lafayette spent a lifetime trying to be the French Washington, attempting to transfer the American ideal of freedom to his benighted land and to act with the principled courage of his mentor. Pretending to be great, the marquis eventually learned to behave nobly. In the end, Lafayette was not France's gift to America, but America's gift to France-and to the idea of liberty...
...effort to find a solution acceptable to all sides, Nakasone ar ranged a private meeting with his political mentor in a Tokyo hotel suite. As the tearful Prime Minister later told party leaders, he did not ask Tanaka outright to give up his seat in parliament, but "I believe what I meant to say was understood." If so, Tanaka ignored the hint. He has resolutely refused to resign and has vowed to take his case to the supreme court...
Next to the column of names is a list of dates from early September up to the present. The list is evidently growing quickly soon Restic will need a new sheet. The thought doesn't please the veteran mentor...