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Meanwhile, a group of Quincy students eager to follow in Grandy's footsteps have leapt at the chance to run for a vacated a seat in the Undergraduate Council. In all, 11 would-be statesmen have entered the fray to replace Douglas W. Romance, who Eisai said found the council's weekly meetings to be too time-consuming...
...vivid reminder that Soviet-American relations operate according to Murphy's Law: given the depths of hostility and mistrust between the superpowers, whatever can go wrong will go wrong. Over the years a lot has gone wrong, and the timing has often scuttled the best-laid plans of statesmen, including some of the Soviet Union's own. In May 1960 an American U-2 plane was downed near Sverdlovsk, and Nikita Khrushchev stormed out of a summit meeting with Dwight Eisenhower in Paris. In August 1968, just as Lyndon Johnson and the Kremlin leaders were preparing to launch the Strategic...
...ever-increasing numbers of Homo sapiens inhabiting our planet have caused worry among statesmen and scholars about how the earth can support so many human mouths to feed, he said...
Every time a paroxysm of black unrest grips South Africa, followed by a crackdown by the white government of State President P.W. Botha, statesmen and politicians in Western capitals begin asking, Is there a way, any way short of military action for the world to force Pretoria to change its racial policies? Last week, as South Africa's current state of emergency entered its third week, the debate flared once more. Its focus: whether recent events require a major step-up in economic sanctions against South Africa, and whether such pressure would really contribute to banishing apartheid...
Considered by fellow politicos and close observers to be one of England's most popular statesmen despite an affiliation with the increasingly unpopular Tory party, Lord Carrington was once considered a strong candidate for the job of Prime Minister. Although Carrington denied interest in the position, he enjoyed more widespread respect than the present P. M. Many also saw him as one of the two or three people that could tell Margaret Thatcher when it was time for her to step down...