Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Among America's allies, too, Carter had acquired new stature. In Britain, where Arabists dominate the Foreign Office, a senior official commented: "Camp David was a formidable achievement by any standards, and establishes President Carter's credibility as a world statesman of the first rank." While not willing to promote Carter to such heights, Germany's Chancellor Helmut Schmidt did praise him for "decisive progress toward peace," and the nine foreign ministers of the European Community jointly offered "homage to President Carter for the great courage which he demonstrated in organizing the Camp David meeting and bringing...
...party was joined. Communist Historian Jean Elleinstein launched a three-part Le Monde series. In it, he caustically observed that there had been "more centralism than democracy" in Communism's history and asked whether the French party could not now accommodate more debate, lest it continue to lose rank-and-file voters. Philosopher Louis Althusser, a party hardliner, joined the criticism with his own Le Monde series, and Jacques Frémontier, editor of a Communist magazine for factory workers, resigned in protest over Marchais's handling of the election...
...cost of extracting it has not been justified by the price. Some of the Sisters have moved heavily into metals, a field in which their geologists have considerable expertise. Shell produced and sold $1.2 billion worth of aluminum, copper, zinc and nickel last year, enough to rank it among the top 100 firms on the FORTUNE 500 index even...
Douglas MacArthur is one of the major embarrassments of American history. On one hand he was, without quibble or question, a military genius of the rank of Alexander, Hannibal and Napoleon. On the other hand, as this flawed but fascinating biography makes clear, he could be one of the pettiest and most arrogant men ever to have worn the uniform of the U.S. Army...
...long shot like Luciani had been thrust so suddenly into the most power ful position in Christendom, the leadership of the world's 700 million Roman Catholics. When Paul died at his summer villa in Castel Gandolfo three weeks ago, there seemed to be a front rank of about half a dozen contending Cardinals, a second echelon of another six or so, and a dozen or more dark horses. Not until about a week before the conclave convened did the Patriarch of Venice begin to emerge as a genuine possibility...