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...Word. In his U.N. speech, Goldberg chided the statesmen-by implication, Charles de Gaulle as well as Thant -who persistently appeal "to one side to stop, while encouraging the other." Denying that the U.S. is engaged in a "holy war against Communism," Goldberg disclaimed any American interest in establishing a "sphere of influence" in Asia. "We want a political solution, not a military solution," he declared. "We seek to assure for the people of South Viet Nam the same right of self-determination-to decide their own political destiny, free of force -that the United Nations Charter affirms...
...medicare, tax reduction and subsidies for the poor. As bills on these issues move through the legislature, each player has to make choices between his principles and what he thinks the public wants. Winners get reelected. Other games cast the players as corporation executives vying for competitive advantage, statesmen seeking gains in trade and diplomacy...
Last year Adial E. Stevenson received honorary Doctor of Laws degree. Two other statesmen, Romulo Betancourt, former president of Venezuala, and Galo Lasso, former president of Ecuador, also received honorary...
...target. The assault began on February 17th when Senator Robert Kennedy criticized the Johnson Administration for a lack of realism in refusing to negotiate directly with the NLF, and the attack continued when John Kenneth Galbraith appeared before the Fulbright Committee and called for a "new generation" of statesmen. Schlesinger's salvo, however, cleverly emphasized party unity by dissociating the President from the Administration's foreign policy and resting the blame squarely on the Secretary of State...
...living of those they ruled. Today the leaders of a new nation are soon in trouble if they do not do so-visibly and dramatically. They confront not one but several revolutions at once-political, economic, social, technological-and are thereby called on to make choices that Western statesmen never had to make. The evidence of how difficult those choices are, and of how unprepared the new nations are to make them, is everywhere at hand...