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...YEAR WHEN YASSER ARAFAT, SHIMON Peres and Yitzhak Rabin worked toward peace--and one of them gave his life--when Slobodan Milosevic, Franjo Tudjman and Alija Izetbegovic negotiated the end of Bosnia's lengthy and bloody war, when statesmen who represented the fall of the Iron Curtain are losing their power to a communist comeback, when Helmut Kohl is winning an economic bet in the east of Germany, and President Clinton and his Secretary of State Warren Christopher are defining a new world order, your choice of House Speaker Gingrich as Man of the Year shows how provincial TIME...
...vote--at least once in my lifetime--for a candidate I truly wanted to be President. While I'm disappointed that Powell isn't going to run, I understand his reasons and cannot disagree with them. The U.S. has ended up with a political system that chases away the statesmen and leaves only the self-serving politicians. Washington is like a circus, but instead of having white stallions that march in time to the music, there are sleek, fat seals that play their horns without rhythm and vigorously applaud at every opportunity. AL BROGDON New Britain, Connecticut Via E-mail...
...time the contingent of officials and statesmen arrive to bestow honors on the bank for excellent management and strong returns, the cast is sprawled around the room, too exhausted to carry out their threats to kill one another, and irritated entirely to madness. The final speeches sputter out of steam, dragging on longer than necessary...
...ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country, a statesman is a man who lies from the comfort of home. Regarding China, American statesmen abound. Assistant Secretary of State Winston Lord denies vehemently that America is trying to contain China as it once did the Soviet Union. Our policy is one of engagement not containment, he insists. And Newt Gingrich says on Face the Nation that we should help the Chinese people undermine the Chinese government, then spends the next five minutes explaining that he did not really mean undermining...
...these diplomatic fibs? Because any rational policy toward a rising, threatening China would have exactly these two components: 1) containing China as it tries relentlessly to expand its reach, and 2) undermining its pseudo-Marxist but still ruthless dictatorship. Responsible statesmen are not allowed to say such things. Essayists...