Word: statesmen
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...integrated Community, unfettered by internal barriers, will be able to compete better against overseas rivals, that is far from its only purpose. After the wreckage of two world wars, European statesmen reasoned that only by interlocking their economies could they make war among themselves unthinkable...
...once asked, who is going to bell the cat? Who is going to march to Belgrade and arrest these people? More accurately, who is going to send American soldiers to force a Serbian surrender? Willing ends without means is child's play. Matching the two is the work of statesmen...
...Mahdi and Aidid, meanwhile, are trying to create new images of themselves as politicians and statesmen. Last week's green-line rally marked the first time since the two sides went to war more than a year ago that they have appeared together at a public gathering. Since the Marines landed, however, they have had several private meetings. Both grandly declared that the day of rule by rifle was over. "I believe only in democracy," said Ali Mahdi in an interview with TIME at his seaside villa in Mogadishu. "Every Somali has the right to be President. If left...
Watch these statesmen in motley, clowns on the stump, and Limbaugh's mud track can look like the high road. He meets his own challenge -- to inform and entertain -- and those who don't get it are always free to tune out. But even some righteous liberals are closet Rushophiles, because the man is so good at what he does. And knows it. And tells you, in a voice whose every syllable bespeaks a 25-year apprenticeship in radio oratory, without fear of repetition or contradiction. If vainglorious were two words, he'd fit both of them...
...surprising that Shevardnadze has seldom had a day off since he returned last March to the small Caucasian republic where he ruled as Communist Party boss before Mikhail Gorbachev summoned him to Moscow in 1985. At a time in life when other senior statesmen would be content to write their memoirs, the 64-year-old diplomat has embarked on the riskiest mission of his career: bringing peace and stability to his homeland. There he daily faces more violence than he did as a major player in the cold war, as Georgia is beset by ethnic rebellions in the independence-minded...