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...necessary. But he does believe that the disproportionate amount of attention Central America has attracted in Washington has obscured U.S. interests elsewhere in the hemisphere. After Motley's auspicious first week in his new position, one State Department official observed, "He might even come to be branded a pragmatist...
...Four times Prime Minister in the 1950s and early '60s, the Tuscany-born Fanfani was known both as il Padrino (the Godfather) and, because of his ability to bounce back from political adversity, the Tuscan Pony. Despite his antiCommunist, anti-abortion stands, he gained a reputation as a pragmatist, forming the country's first left-of-center coalition with the Socialists in 1962. His ability to compromise was quickly put to use last week to mollify the present-day Socialists under Bettino Craxi...
...They don't raise doves in the Kremlin," says Medvedev. "But where Mikhail Suslov [the late party ideologue] was a dogmatist, Andropov is a pragmatist. The major problems of Soviet foreign policy today?Poland and Afghanistan?cannot be solved by applying more power, but through skill and flexibility...
...credited with helping the Democrats statewide and putting together an impressive "get out the vote" effort. Certainly not a flaming liberal--he backs capital punishment, for example--Hunt nonetheless has proved a strong civil rights supporter, has sought jobs aggressively for state workers, and in general is a forceful pragmatist who can start to unify the fragmented Democrats...
...Buenos Aires last year and fervently hoped to build a strategic barricade against leftist infiltration in the Western Hemisphere by forging closer links with authoritarian regimes like the military junta in Argentina. Though Haig shares Kirkpatrick's fears about Communist advances in Latin America, he is a political pragmatist who is generally more flexible on foreign policy issues. Having been Supreme Commander of NATO from 1974 to 1979, he tends to be more sympathetic to European interests...