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According to a recent Gallup poll, Kissinger is the man Americans admire most in the world today. Abroad he has achieved the kind of celebrity status seldom enjoyed by anyone but top movie stars; in fact, he has become in some places almost a cult hero. His round, expressive face draws more instant recognition in many nations than even that of the local ruler. Government leaders, like so many shy fans, inveigle ways to be photographed with...
Lewis said he regards his job as that of a public servant. "Very seldom can you get the great majority of the American people to express themselves about the fundamental questions of their lives as they do in an election, and it is our duty to make that expression articulate," he said...
...Slingerland's resignation didn't come close to shaking Harvard to its roots or anything like that. But it was unusual; officials at Harvard, especially in these quiet times, very seldom resign at all, let alone in a tremendous public huff...
...proposed eleven months ago. France, which has openly warned other European countries that they can maintain their identity only if they keep some distance from the U.S., is a particular nemesis. Most rankling, perhaps, is the EEC'S method of "consultation." Kissinger believes that the U.S. is seldom allowed to participate in EEC discussions early enough to affect their outcome...
...million more inside and outside refugee camps in Syria, Lebanon and Jordan) has been the most intractable of the Middle East disputes. Syria has given strident sympathy to the "liberation" groups that would dismantle Israel as a Jewish state and establish a binational, secular Palestine, and Syria has seldom condemned terrorist actions. Asks Assad: "How could we persuade the dispossessed people they should be content to keep silence and not disturb the world...