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When the Speaker moved back into the House chamber last week for his final plea against Reagan's budget, he passed up his high podium chair for an empty seat on the floor. As he chatted with colleagues who stopped by, O'Neill kept an ear on speakers at the podium. When one of them declared that Reagan's economic program was a disaster for the country, O'Neill clapped his hands quietly. At one point, there was too much noise in the chamber; the Speaker rose and commanded silence. For a moment, he still appeared...
...distrust of Arabs. Two weeks ago, at a festival in Jerusalem's Sacher Park attended by some 50,000 North African Jews, Begin so charmed his audience that bodyguards had to protect the frail candidate from his listeners' affection. Later, when Peres tried to mount the same podium, he was greeted with a shower of tomatoes and oranges thrown by jeering young men and was forced to retreat from the rostrum without uttering a word. Labor charged angrily that the Likud had orchestrated the demonstration...
...causes," he writes, "is still a constant in my life." Perhaps. But few similarly committed public figures have succeeded as well as he. His attributes are many and formidable. The imposing intelligence and intimidating physique are obvious. His facility for understated sarcasm makes him a dangerous opponent on the podium or editorial page. Like Henry Kissinger, Galbraith can joke about his self-confidence without sinking in false modesty. Moreover, he is a diligent and productive worker...
...Elysée Palace, meeting foreign leaders, affably mixing with ordinary citizens. "France has found its face," concludes the narration. "With this face it is at peace with itself," The audience cheers. The lights go up-and Candidate Giscard, accompanied by his wife Anne-Aymone, rises smiling to the podium...
...turned out, Brezhnev was the only foreign party chief present at the party congress in Prague. And when the Soviet leader shuffled to the podium the day after Husák's diatribe, he adopted a far more moderate tone. He alluded only obliquely to the events in Czechoslovakia in 1968. "But one would have to assume," he added, "that the Polish Communists, with the support of all true Polish patriots," would be able "to give a fitting rebuff to the designs of the enemies of the socialist system." The statement seemed to offer Warsaw's leaders...