Word: statesmanly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...kids who made up the New Left and counterculture are men and women now. They did not merely step onto the centrifuge of the '60s and pinwheel themselves out in the direction of Aquarius, to vanish forever. Many simply settled down. Says David Dellinger, 62, an elder statesman of the movement: "A lot of people had been leading emergency lives fbr-a-long time. They had put off schooling, babies, their own lives." Whatever their real accomplishments, the New Leftists and their allies during the '60s were engaged in an immense, new kind of theater...
...that Anderson, highly regarded in the industry, will become the real power behind the throne. But Onassis staffers insist that Christina means to stay in charge. She presides at management meetings hi Monte Carlo and often visits Onassis offices in London, Athens and Manhattan. Says Constantino Gratsos, 75, elder statesman of the Onassis enterprises: "Not a single decision of substance gets by without Christina's approval...
Begin has shrewdly presented to Israelis an image of himself as a paternalistic statesman-partly by stopping loose postelection hints about annexing the "liberated" West Bank, which he invariably calls by its biblical name, Samaria and Judea. Says Philip Gillon, columnist for the Jerusalem Post: "Begin's basic views don't seem to have changed at all, and that is very worrying. But he has stopped shooting off his mouth as if he were still in the opposition. He has stopped seeing himself as an ex-underground fighter and has begun to see himself as the leader...
Obviously it would be untenable for a contemporary statesman to base concrete territorial demands on the Bible. But Begin often uses biblical allusions to support a Jewish historical claim-and the Administration does not intend to be caught unaware if he starts to cite the Good Book. Shortly after his election, he said he might discuss biblical references with the President at their first meeting. "He knows the Bible by heart," Begin told TIME Jerusalem Bureau Chief Donald Neff, adding modestly, "I also know some parts...
...presiding over a burgeoning economy and the head of one of Latin America's few democracies. With all those credentials, Carlos Andrés Pérez, the expansive President of Venezuela, was assured warm abrazos when he arrived in Washington last week as the first South American statesman to get a come-visit invitation from Jimmy Carter...