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...occupation of the West Bank but the Arab refusal to recognize Israel. Only one moderate Arab leader, Egypt's President Anwar Sadat, has had the courage to proclaim "no more war." For that he received the strategic Sinai Peninsula. Israel is still waiting for another farsighted Arab statesman who is able to discuss the West Bank...
Your Essay "Where Have All the Insults Gone?" [Aug. 31] reminded me of a classic rebuff uttered by American Congressman and Statesman Thaddeus Stevens. While crossing a mud-covered Lancaster, Pa., street on a wooden plank in the mid-1800s, Stevens confronted a political adversary coming toward him on the same narrow walkway. His rival called out in disdain, "I never step aside for scoundrels!" Stevens quickly stepped back off the plank and into the ankle-deep mud and replied, "I, on the other hand, always...
Sadat, with his usual candor, called the wave of arrests a "purge." It was also one of the riskiest gambles he has taken during his eleven years in power. At first he seemed undaunted by the effect that the campaign might have on his reputation abroad as a world statesman. But then he took the unusual step of summoning Egyptian and foreign journalists to his home village of Mit Abu el Kom to explain his action. At the press conference Sadat declared: "I am facing fanaticism on both sides, and I am trying to remedy it." Alluding to the rise...
...career soldier who fought in Korea before becoming Thailand's supreme commander, Kriangsak was involved in four coups, the last of which brought him to the Prime Minister's office in November 1977. Trading his camouflage fatigues for pinstripe suits, he evolved into a democrat and statesman. He abolished press censorship, hiked the minimum wage, offered amnesty to Communist insurgents and organized free elections under a new constitution. He also pulled off a tricky diplomatic balancing act, improving relations with Communist neighbors in Hanoi and Phnom-Penh while strengthening Thailand's ties with Washington...
...august French presidential style that Charles de Gaulle once described as being above the "petty elements of the everyday political fray." In a week dominated by largely symbolic meetings and gestures, President Francois Mitterrand helped calm jittery nerves at home and abroad by projecting the image of the measured statesman rather than the Socialist firebrand his critics have portrayed...