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...which has imported most of its wild mushrooms from Europe, will show off its own fungi for European statesmen at the economic summit this weekend at Williamsburg, Va. Their five meals will be based entirely on American ingredients and recipes. New York Times Food Writer Craig Claiborne (A Feast Made for Laughter), the man of all seasonings who was asked by the White House to organize the menus, has concocted a dish of boneless chicken legs and thighs stuffed with chopped chicken liver, wild rice and morels sauteed in butter. The mushrooms may even come from Mesick...
Andropoy himself raised the German issue last week when he made his latest proposal for a separate balance of Soviet INF warheads and the corresponding British French warheads Before making this proposal, he declared "..FRG statesmen have repeatedly expressed agreement that war should never again be unleashed from German soil. How can this be squared with support for the plans to deploy American missiles on West German soil...
...They admired him, they respected him and they forgave him almost everything, except that he had grown old." Such was the assessment of Vienna's daily Kurier last week when one of the senior statesmen of the Western world announced his retirement after 13 years in office. Added the conservative newspaper, which had been a sharp critic of the Chancellor: "Kreisky has lost the elections. But Austria has lost Kreisky...
...photo finish. "You may be collecting your Social Security before we finish this commission, but I assure you it will be there when the time comes," quipped Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York as he entered Blair House, the capital's official guest residence for visiting statesmen, where the eleventh-hour negotiations took place. Administration officials, led by White House Chief of Staff James Baker, conferred on and off with various combinations of commission members throughout the panel's last official day of existence. The group finally reached a compromise agreement that satisfied a majority...
However, such moments are rare, and as a result we see more a portrait of Nixon's own failings than cogent portrayals of modern-day statesmen. And nowhere is this point better driven home than in the final pages of the book, where Nixon sums up his reflections on leadership. Closing what has in truth been a halfway interesting read, one is struck by the noticeable lack of comment on the moral qualities of leadership. Oh, Nixon doesn't miss the chance to make a comment or two about Khruschev's untrustworthiness or duplicity. But when it comes...