Word: statesmanship
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...about it?" asks Shepard Stone, former director of the Aspen Institute in West Berlin. "The U.S. is one of the greatest trading powers in the world. So is Japan. I know a lot of people who don't like the Americans or the Japanese. But it's smart statesmanship to work with reality. The Germans have behaved well in the European Community and the world...
...Genscher, who called a halt. At a tense 3 1/2-hour meeting of the ruling parties last week, Genscher's Free Democrats warned that they would walk out and bring down the government if the Chancellor did not put the Polish issue to rest. Reluctantly, Kohl was forced to choose statesmanship over politics. "Mistakes were made on all sides," he conceded, "including by me." The Bundestag then adopted a resolution calling on both Germanys to guarantee Poland's borders later this month and sign a final treaty of acceptance after unification...
...very lucky to have three such prominent leaders coming to Harvard," Ramirez said. "The caliber of their statesmanship and the importance of the issue should make it a fruitful event...
...national anthems. Pen is put to treaty, palm grasps palm in a handshake of newfound understanding and -- pop! -- a burst of flashbulbs records the moment for posterity. But as the cold war winds down, history is offering up startling new images that bear none of the hallmarks of traditional statesmanship. Last week history was made amid the flutter of colorful balloons, the sputtering of rattletrap Trabants and Wartburgs and -- pop! -- the burst of champagne corks. It was the Great Trek Westward, and as East Germans headed for new lives in West Germany, the world witnessed a unique spectacle: an East...
...despite being Communists." The insurgents suffered a setback in last week's election of a new parliament, or Supreme Soviet, but Gorbachev still intends that body, over time, to serve as a counterweight to the party. He is pulling off an amazing, perhaps unprecedented, feat in the history of statesmanship: he is simultaneously the leader of the entrenched power structure and the leader of the opposition...