Word: statesman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Europe desperately needs a statesman like François Mitterrand [WORLD, April 2] to help ensure peace and a strong economy. He is firm in his policies toward the East bloc countries, yet recognizes the importance of a strong European Community. He is the only Socialist I admire...
...citizens to emigrate to the West since the beginning of the year; in all of 1983, 11,343 East Germans crossed the border. Says Horst Ehmke, deputy leader of West Germany's Social Democratic Party: "Right now Honecker is doing more for detente than any other statesman...
...Thatcher was by far the strongest, the shrewdest and the most clear-sighted player in the game. A statesman is a leader who, knowing where the true interests of the nation lie, resists counsel that .clashes with conviction. Margaret Thatcher belongs in that company. But when I say that in the Falklands, the West was given a great victory by Britain, I do not mean the defeat of Argentinian soldiers by British soldiers. British arms prevailed, but principle triumphed. The will of the West...
...mistake about it. Reagan is devoted to the job. He loves being President--which is just fine. But the sad truth is that his view of what exactly the man in the oval office should be doing is different from most people's. He sees himself as an elder statesman, a philosophical grandfather-figure too elevated to bother himself with details like facts and programs...
...struggle and frustrated in the global one. He lost Reagan's confidence and support, and he left his successor, George Shultz, with a daunting agenda of unfinished business. In the eyes of his critics, Haig's defeat was self-inflicted: the soldier in him got the better of the statesman; he did not know when to stop fighting and seek conciliation; he was too obsessed with his enemies, however real; he spent too much time defending turf and proclaiming his prerogatives; and he was sometimes a poor conceptual thinker...