Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...play a direct role in foreign affairs, she did have some contact with Soviet leaders. Leonid Brezhnev she would later describe as "the biggest clown in the world"; Nikita Khrushchev was "a big fool." She was particularly bitter about him because he had talked to foreign statesmen about the "yellow peril...
Obvious Disappointment. Arab statesmen, on the other hand, who like to pretend that they pay no attention at all to Israeli politics, were obviously disappointed by the outcome. They believe that the suave, eloquent Peres is a stronger leader than the cautious, dogmatic Rabin, and that he would be willing to make unpopular decisions toward peace. Still, the vote was so narrow that not even Peres, had he won, would have felt politically secure enough at home to push for such forthright negotiations with the Arabs...
This community of our future was not created by any assemblage of statesmen. It had no written charter, and was not to be governed by any council of ambassadors. Yet it would reach into the daily lives of citizens on all continents. In creating and shaping this community the U.S. would play the leading role...
...problems. Ever since the pound took its disastrous nosedive during the last days of September-thereby forcing James Callaghan's Labor government to ask for yet another $3.9 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund-Britons have been treated to a Cassandra's chorus of elder statesmen appealing for a government of national unity...
...must ask: What sort of people have given us the version of the world that we accept as real and true? Who in Western society have been the church fathers, the statesmen, the scientists? And of course, part of the answer is contained in the very words of our question: they have been almost entirely the male scions of social privileged families. Therefore it becomes one of the tasks of those groups who have been excluded from the tradition of reality-making to examine the "real world" critically from their own viewpoints, and to generate their own models of those...