Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...idealism that characterized his first four Making of the President books and In Search of History, his remarkable 1978 account of his personal odyssey. That book ended with a capsule account of the 1960 presidential race and White's portrait of triumphant John Kennedy as the most prescient, commanding politician he had encountered. Early in his final work, White does mouth some of the same hero-worship, saying that JFK alone might qualify as "a rare personality--a Roosevelt, a Churchill, a Mao, a Monet--[who] might alter the direction of the forces, and make his own life a legend...
...characterization of Yasser Arafat's policies as "relatively moderate" makes him sound like a middle-of-the-road American politician. He is moderate only in comparison with such immoderates as Gaddafi and Khomeini. On any other scale, Arafat, who has advocated the elimination of Israel, and who is probably the person most responsible for the proliferation of worldwide terrorism, would be recognized as the extremist that...
...pollsters, the final tally last week handed victory not to the underdog who had pressed for the ballot by mail but to the elder statesman who would no doubt have been the first choice of M.P.s in a smoke-filled room. The winner was Roy Jenkins, 61, a venerable politician who served in several Labor Cabinets and as president of the Brussels-based European Commission before helping form the new centrist party last year...
...fall conference on nuclear arms for area student leaders sponsored by Harvard's Institute of Politics (IOP), agreed yesterday with Lown's assessment. Hamilton pointed out that European students, who in the past several years have led a vocalanti-nuclear movement on that continent, only became interested when politician began talking about the possibility of limited nuclear war in their homelands...
...authority, however, worried some political leaders. Said a veteran observer of the Israeli military scene: "The generals are afraid of him. He's very much in charge. Begin too is totally dependent on Sharon and on his reporting of the way the war is going." Added a Labor politician: "My main concern is that there is no other professional military judgment being presented to Begin...