Word: statesman
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...Israel within the customary 24-hour period between death and burial, Rabin's state funeral was put off a day--until Monday afternoon. But Israelis themselves poured out their confused and troubled emotions on Sunday in a remarkable rite of homage. As a motorized cortege bore the warrior statesman up the highway from Tel Aviv to the Holy City, teary-eyed mourners lined the route. And when he came to rest in the brilliant blue November afternoon on a catafalque outside the Knesset, hundreds of thousands of Israelis, in a queue two kilometers long, filed quietly past to pay their...
...loss of Yitzhak Rabin is a tragedy for the Jewish people and the world. He was surely a great statesman, but his vision and commitment to peace will mark him as one of the great leaders of the century. He devoted his life to the creation and survival of the Jewish state and to the welfare of the Jewish people. As a young man, he defended Jerusalem in the 1948 War of Independence and later commanded the Israeli armed forces to victory in the 1967 war. In war and in peacetime, he held his principles dear and ultimately paid...
...Yitzhak Rabin is laid to rest, President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, King Hussein of Jordan and President Clinton will be among the many heads of state who will honor the memory of the fallen Israeli soldier and statesman. Their decision to attend betrays not only a respect for Rabin the man, but a deep-seated belief that the peace he envisioned ought not be allowed to vanish...
Former Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti, the country's leading postwar statesman, went on trial Tuesday, charged with trading political favors in Rome for votes supplied by the Mafia . "Is it possible that a man who represented Italy for 50 years at the same time swore allegiance to Cosa Nostra?" his defense attorney, Franco Coppi, shouted to the Palermo courtroom. The 76-year-old Andreotti, a reputed crime-fighter who served as premier seven times, is the highest Italian official ever to be tried on mob charges. "Much of the testimony against Andreotti is supplied by pentiti -- repentant Mafiosi...
...other famous son with a new magazine this week is William Kristol, whose father Irving is an elder statesman of neoconservatism. Kristol is editor and publisher of the Weekly Standard, a conservative review of politics that he founded with John Podhoretz (son of noted neocon Norman) and Fred Barnes (ex of the New Republic) with financing from Rupert Murdoch. Let George bill itself hopefully as "post partisan.'' At the Standard it's the dawn of a postliberal age, for which they would provide a forum and rumpus room, a place where conservatives could not only cackle over the death throes...