Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Deng actually delivered those remarks at the October meeting of the Central Advisory Commission, a grouping of the Communist Party's elder statesmen, but the full text had not been published before. In what was clearly a dramatic effort to give the reform movement even greater momentum, the country's press carried the speech on front pages. "No country can now develop by closing its door," said Deng, in a spirited defense of his policy of building ties to the West. "We suffered from this, and our forefathers suffered from this. Isolation landed China in poverty, backwardness and ignorance." Only...
Often TIME'S staff members invite distinguished statesmen whom they have met as correspondents. Former Bonn Bureau Chief William Mader helped to bring in West Germany's then Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. Onetime Paris Bureau Chief Henry Muller invited French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson. As Senior Editor Muller puts it, "Hearing someone present a policy in person, regardless of what other information or analysis you have, helps you to understand that policy better...
DIED. Adam Malik. 67, eloquent, energetic Indonesian Foreign Minister from 1966 to 1977 and Vice President from 1978 to 1983, a founding father of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and one of the region's most respected statesmen; of cancer; in Bandung, Indonesia...
...being deprived of adequate care in the Soviet Union. His request denied, Sakharov on May 2 began a hunger strike that made news around the world. Soviet officials then accused Bonner of conspiring with U.S. diplomats to conduct an anti-Soviet campaign in the West. Meanwhile, Western statesmen, including President Reagan, persistently expressed concern about Sakharov's condition. Rumors that Sakharov was dangerously ill, and even dead, kept the story in the headlines...
...hard line in U.S.-Soviet relations, Moscow Bureau Chief Erik Amfitheatrof studied the record of the past and consulted dozens of Soviet and Western sources. He also drew on his on-the-scene experience of watching Gromyko at numerous Kremlin functions, including the receptions for foreign statesmen that followed the funerals of Leonid Brezhnev and Yuri Andropov. On those occasions, he reports, Gromyko lingered longer with East bloc allies and exchanged only perfunctory greetings with Western leaders. "The exception," Amfitheatrof notes, "was Britain's Margaret Thatcher, who seemed able to charm the grim-faced Foreign Minister...