Word: statesmanly
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...longer a pariah. Reporters from the New York Times, television interviewers from CBS, and TIME too, seek his views on an area where he has expertise, the Soviet Union and China. Discreet in his criticism of Reagan, he seeks for himself a new role as moderate senior statesman...
...office, Yuri Andropov, the newly appointed head of the Soviet Communist Party, moved quickly and confidently to convey the impression that he was in charge. Meeting with the largest group of world leaders to converge upon Moscow in Soviet history, Andropov behaved with the consummate skill of an experienced statesman, stressing old alliances and signaling new approaches with a judicious handshake, a perfunctory nod or a quiet invitation for future talk...
...Kennedy's ten favorite books, eight were history and biography. He devoured the 407-page Sir Robert Walpole: The Making of a Statesman in one evening. Eyeing China, J.F.K. called for two of Mao's books. Seeking insights into world trouble spots, he dug into Che Guevara's accounts of guerrilla...
...drives the laborers beyond their endurance. He steals food, then rations it. He intercepts calls and news from home "for their own good." He quarantines them from entertainment, and even from attending church. It takes no Soviet censor to find a political metaphor here: Nowak is the Polish statesman-Gierek or Kania or Jaruzelski-who must act the ruthless boss to satisfy his own ruthless boss. It is difficult, it is wrong, but it must be done to survive. Thus does the liberal turn totalitarian...
Even if Kohl accedes to Schmidt's mantle and becomes an international statesman and media superstar, the chances are good that he will remain a provincial at heart. Kohl still prefers his cluttered office in Mainz to the C.D.U. 's marble music, in the German capital. A devotee of jazz and classical music, the master of a world-class wine cellar in his home outside Ludwigshafen, he also admits a fondness for television westerns and pizza. Recalling their eleven-year courtship, his wife Hannelore says, "I got three to four letters a week from him, amounting to over...