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RECOVERING. W. Averell Harriman, 92, former Governor of New York and U.S. Ambassador to London and Moscow; from a broken knee suffered when the Democratic Party's elder statesman was knocked over by a wave while walking on the beach; at his house in Barbados...
...warned of the dangers facing all large legislative assemblies, noting that "the greater the number composing them may be, the fewer will be the men who will in fact direct their proceedings." Madison went on to observe that in the earliest republics, a single orator or an artful statesman was generally seen to rule with as complete a sway as if a scepter had been placed in his single hand...
...more expensive and difficult to control; of rising tension that might make every world trouble spot a potential flash point for the clash both sides fear. The deterioration of U.S.-Soviet relations to that frozen impasse overshadowed all other events of 1983. In shaping plans for the future, every statesman in the world and very nearly every private citizen has to calculate what may come of the face-off between the countries whose leaders?one operating in full public view, the other as a mysterious presence hidden by illness?share the power to decide whether there will be any future...
Modern Times by Paul Johnson. The crusty former editor of the New Statesman blames Einstein, Marx and no-fault liberalism for the evils of the "me" century...
...Perle testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee. He stressed that there was no middle ground between the zero option and full deployment of the 572 new American missiles called for in the December 1979 decision. He concluded his testimony with a quotation from the British statesman Samuel Hoare, reflecting ruefully on Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's "slide into surrender" to Adolf Hitler at Munich in 1938. The comparison between Chamberlain in Munich and Nitze in Geneva was no less invidious for being implicit...