Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...documents a year. But its football-field-size printing plant will be taxed by the nonstop flow of oratory. To fit in all the speechmaking anticipated in the final week of the anniversary commemoration, U.N. officials are searching for a diplomatic way to hold the pronouncements of visiting statesmen to 15 minutes apiece. Their solution: dignitaries will be warned that if their eloquence runs long, "night meetings will be required with all the ensuing consequences." Dire consequences indeed: cocktail parties delayed and curtain times missed...
Kenneth Kaunda, 61, who has been President of Zambia since his country's independence in 1964, is one of black Africa's elder statesmen. Though not a Marxist, he is a firmly committed nationalist who supported the independence struggles in Angola, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. Kaunda is, however, also a devout Christian who believes that "when the good Lord said 'Love thy neighbor as thyself,' he didn't mention color." He has met with South African leaders in an effort to bring about an end to apartheid. TIME Diplomatic Correspondent William Stewart recently visited the Zambian capital of Lusaka to talk...
...hard therefore to understand why our proposals have provoked such outspoken displeasure on the part of responsible U.S. statesmen. Attempts have been made to portray them as nothing but pure propaganda. Anyone even slightly familiar with the matter would easily see that behind our proposals there are most serious intentions and not just an attempt to influence public opinion. All real efforts to limit nuclear weapons began with a ban on tests --just recall the 1963 treaty that was a first major step in that direction. A complete end to nuclear tests would halt the nuclear arms race...
...books donated by John Harvard of England. Now it owns the second largest library in the world and has monetary assets in the billions. But Harvard College is still the core of this network. It's still the one that produced five presidents and scores of Congressmen and statesmen...
...These statesmen forbore going to court in part because they doubted the courts would, or should, be open to them. The Federalists, the party of Alexander Hamilton and John Adams, enacted in 1798 a Sedition Act that imposed criminal penalties for "false, scandalous and malicious writing" about the Government, Congress or the President. The law proved so unpopular that it contributed to the Federalists' defeat in 1800 and later disappearance; the statute expired in 1801, and has been regarded as unconstitutional...