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Yeltsin came across as a serious statesman, repeating sweeping disarmament proposals and adding an intriguing suggestion: a global missile-defense system that would blend Russian defense technology into the U.S. Star Wars program. Having just decreed the release of the last 10, he boasted that "there are no more prisoners of conscience in free Russia." But if Yeltsin earned high marks, Li barely passed. Despite support in the final summit declaration of "respect for human rights," Li denounced such concerns as "an excuse" for interference in a country's internal affairs...
...dozen European food and drink manufacturers, investment firms and banks, may be the opening gambit of a Continent-wide scramble in which European and American companies will grab for the biggest possible portions in the soon-to-be- restructured European trading community. Friends have quoted Giovanni Agnelli, elder statesman of the Turin clan, as saying, "I really won't be satisfied until I have a Nestle." As the stakes get higher in Europe's food industry, the ultimate question may become who eats whom first...
...Aristocracy will consist exclusively of hermits, bums and permanent invalids. The Rough Diamond, the Consumptive Whore, the bandit who is good to his mother, the epileptic girl who has a way with animals will be the heroes and heroines of the New Age, when the general, the statesman, and the philosopher have become the butt of every farce and satire...
Bonnie Meltzer, a professional at a charitable foundation who works closely with Smith, calls the new corporation member "a brilliant mediator." She says, "He really uses his leadership to bring people together." And Professor of Pediatrics Emeritus William Berenberg '36 says Smith is "a statesman...
...WARRIOR STATESMAN: THE LIFE OF MOSHE DAYAN by Robert Slater (St. Martin's Press; $27.95). Dayan, Israel's most controversial political and military figure, successfully led his country in the 1967 Six-Day War. In the first full-length biography of Dayan, Slater, who is a reporter for TIME's Jerusalem bureau, contends that Dayan's decision to keep Israel in the West Bank and Gaza Strip led to the hard-line, right-wing policies of the Shamir government...