Word: statesmanship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hopes for peace?colonial commissions, the corpses of assassinated mediators, United Nations resolutions signed but unhonored. Despite the euphoric glow last week in Cairo and Jerusalem, no one who has long watched the region's affairs was likely to announce: "Peace is at hand." Anwar Sadat had headily mixed statesmanship and showmanship, but that is a volatile combination. The very headlong momentum that Sadat had forced raised the question of whether he was practicing a durable diplomacy...
Reactions to all this have been swift and angry. The Daily Telegraph editorialized that the book constitutes "a failure of ecclesiastical statesmanship" that will confuse faithful Christians. The semiofficial Church Times dismissed the anthology as "a notably unconvincing contribution to the cause of unbelief." The Archbishop of Canterbury was heard to remark at a picnic that the book "has made more hubbub than it is worth"; in that spirit, he successfully prevented debate over it at last month's meeting of the church General Synod...
...both principle and pragmatism. The recovery of Western Europe and Japan, the creation of peacetime alliances, the shaping of the global trade and monetary system, the economic advance of newer and poorer nations, the measures to control the nuclear arms race−these constitute an enduring record of American statesmanship...
...Bunny Vote. On foreign policy, Dole stoutly defended Republican policies and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, a villain to the G.O.P. right wing and a man Carter has criticized for his "Lone Ranger" brand of statesmanship. Mondale argued vaguely for a more open foreign policy consistent with American democratic principles. He dragged in Ford's blooper about Eastern Europe's being free of Soviet domination. It was, he said, "probably one of the most outrageous statements made by a President in recent political history...
Among Sadlowski's biggest targets is the Experimental Negotiating Agreement, signed in 1973 by the U.S.W. and the steel companies and first applied to an actual contract in 1974. The agreement was hailed as a model of labor statesmanship because it combined flexibility on wages and benefits with a prohibition against strikes. The three-year contract now in effect, for example, gave the workers large increases the first year, guaranteed smaller raises the second and third years and allowed the union to reopen to press for more. But it provided that disputes over wages and benefits be settled...