Word: statesmens
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...Rusk's eloquence and McNamara's statistics, most European statesmen are concerned that the Viet Nam war may force the U.S. to deplete its military commitment at NATO. In fact, as McNamara pointed out, by increasing its cumulative military spending $50 billion in the last five years, the U.S. has insured its present ability to send a major force to Asia without any significant reduction in its European strength...
...last thing Britain wants is troops from other nations on Central African soil. Yet one of Africa's elder statesmen, Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya, was also working up to a similar demand. Kenyatta petitioned the U.N. Security Council to declare embargoes on Rhodesia under Chapter VII of the U.N. Charter, which would most likely require a U.N. force to police them. Britain does have a veto in the Security Council but the General Assembly can also vote to send such a force...
...middle-class way of life-a fact with incalculable repercussions in the Communist world. The Market also led to the beginnings of a free, united and supranational Europe, not attempted since the nation-state was born with all its banners flying, though it has been a dream of statesmen from Charlemagne to Churchill, of poets from Dante to Goethe. Militarily, the Western Europeans joined with the U.S. in interposing NATO's "sword and shield" against Communist military aggression from the East...
...last beginning to realize that this was no remote frontier skirmish but an all-out war, there was still considerable confusion over where it would lead. To many, the very word "negotiations" had talismanic power, as though a swift and honorable solution were waiting readymade if only the statesmen could find the magic formula. To be sure, U.S. officials have taken every opportunity to underscore their determination to negotiate peace terms. But even if North Viet Nam were to agree to sit down at the bargaining table tomorrow, the killing might well continue for years beyond that...
...means "time rhythm," and it describes a flexible tercet that has the form of a syllogism and the force of a heroic haiku. Yi Bang-won and Jong Mong-ju addressed each other in sijo, and over the next five centuries their example was emulated by thousands of eminent statesmen, generals and courtesans. A vast literature of sijo resulted, and even these stiff translations by Inez Kong Pai suggest that it is a poetic form whose recognition by the West is long overdue...