Word: statesman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Zensho-an Buddhist temple. Last week was no exception. During almost a year in office, Nakasone has projected an image of strong leadership abroad and developed close personal ties with President Reagan, who will make a three-day visit to Japan this week. But at home, the Liberal Democratic statesman has seemed uncertain about how to handle the scandal sur rounding his longtime political ally, for mer Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka. As pressure mounted on Nakasone to dis tance himself from the man who has come to be known as the Shadow Shogun, the troubled Japanese leader slipped away...
...early on ("I was good field, no hit") he decided that journalism might be better suited to his talents. After graduation from City College of New York and the Michele Clark Fellowship Program for Minority Journalists, he got a job as a reporter at the Yonkers (N. Y.) Herald Statesman, then moved on to U.P.I, in Dallas and the Atlanta Constitution. He has spent the past 4½ years in TIME'S Chicago and Los Angeles bureaus...
Despite denials like this, observers cannot mistake the political inclinations of the seminar's guest speakers. The list includes Sen. Gary Hart (D-Colo.), the Presidential candidate whose espousal of industrial policy made the concept a political force: Democratic elder statesman John Kenneth Galbraith (scheduled for later this year), and officials of the United Auto Workers...
...political force in modern Lebanon, the Druze were organized and galvanized by the magnetic Kamal Jumblatt, who was once described as "both rebel and statesman, mystic and politician." Three years after he joined parliament in 1946, Jumblatt formed the Progressive Socialist Party, and in the years that followed, he gave his committed support to the cause of Arab nationalism. By 1975 Jumblatt had founded the Lebanese National Movement and established himself as pre-eminent warlord of the Lebanese left. In the course of his political career, he ruled four ministries and helped to topple two Presidents. He also strongly opposed...
...Kohl had postponed a visit to Israel. U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz was noticeably laconic in responding to the news of Begin's resignation. "I wish him well," said Shultz. "We'll deal with the new government when it appears." Enjoying the prerogatives of the elder statesman, former President Gerald Ford expressed the hope that Begin's successor would bring about "a bit more flexibility than has been exhibited by the Israeli government in the past." But even if Shamir's diplomatic experience makes him easier to deal with than the irascible Begin, U.S. officials...