Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strange mystique has settled around the Fund. The curious personality of Witteveen-part hard-nosed banker, part mystic (see box) -has only added to the organization's enigmatic reputation. The mystique is undeserved, since the delegates are as subject to emotion and nationalistic impulses as any businessman or politician...
...burnish the U.S. image abroad, the policy has been a great triumph in many regions. From Latin America, TIME Correspondent Barry Hillenbrand reports that among the people?but not the officials?Carter is fast becoming as admired as the much venerated John Kennedy. Notes a leading opposition politician in Chile: "The U.S. is now in the forefront of the fight for freedom and has once again assumed moral and spiritual leadership...
...again in 1976, when Chiang Ch'ing led the pack that hounded him into ignominy. Teng's return was also a dramatic demonstration of China's erratic course in the past decade-from pragmatism to radical zeal and back again. In modern Communist history, no other politician had ever risen to such heights of power and descended to such depths of disgrace-twice in a lifetime-and survived to rule again...
...white voters. But most observers feel that Smith's sense of timing is as acute as ever-and that he will probably win another mandate. "Smith still sees himself as the man who can save the position of the whites in a black-ruled country," says one politician. "If you know Smith, he wants to rule from the grave...
...years, the Premier last week began holding open house on the Sabbath at his residence. No previous Premier ever did this. "It's not my home; it's yours," Begin earnestly told several hundred visitors who showed up for the first session. Begin as a good politician is constantly visible attending bar mitzvahs and berit (circumcision rites), or praying at the Wailing Wall. Unlike Rabin, a secular-minded sabra, Begin is a deeply religious man who seems quite comfortable with yarmulke, shawl and prayer book. The Premier even paid a preflight call on his old antagonist Golda Meir...