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...assured salesman of policy, cool under stress and adroit at coping with diplomatic delicacies. "I think he's got water for blood," says Eugene Lawson, a former State Department colleague who is now a director at Georgetown University's foreign service school. "He's a collected, shrewd guy who always seems to land on his feet...
...that inspired the Marxist-tinged "theology of liberation." Since the Puebla statement does not condemn liberation theology−or even mention it by name−progressives felt relieved. Pope John Paul was described by aides as "delighted" with the document. Said CELAM President Aloisio Cardinal Lorscheider of Brazil, a shrewd moderate: "It's well balanced and goes forward from Medellin...
...visit of China's spry, shrewd Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing is the stunning climax of the Great Leap Outward that he conceived, planned and executed for China after decades of xenophobic isolation. It marks the first official visit to the U.S. by a top-level Chinese leader since the Communist takeover in 1949. Nearly five years ago, when he was China's Deputy Premier, Teng flew to New York to address the U.N. General Assembly, but he was not an official visitor; Washington and Peking did not have full diplomatic relations. This time Teng rates the complete ceremonial...
...crisis has proved to be something of a political bonus for the Conservative opposition and its shrewd leader, Margaret Thatcher. Because minority parties continue to support Callaghan's government, she has stopped short of calling for a vote of confidence that might topple Callaghan and conceivably lead to a Tory victory in a new election. But Thatcher has taken every opportunity to attack Callaghan for his handling of the unions. Last week, for example, she brandished a challenge: "You no longer have the courage to act. Will you not then at least have the courage to resign?" The Prime...
...liberal minority had steamrollered its ideas past an apathetic majority. In 1972 Vatican officials favored the CELAM board's selection of auxiliary Bishop Alfonso López Trujillo from the staunchly conservative Colombian hierarchy as secretary-general, or top staff executive. López Trujillo is a firm, shrewd anti-Marxist who once declared, "I don't believe that in Latin America Marxism has any possibilities. Nor does a capitalism that turns its back on mankind." He is a foe of liberation theology and apparently had a hand in an important critique of it that was released...