Word: strategist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...appointed a tubercular army marshall, Lin Piao, to take over the Defense ministry. Lin had been a brilliant strategist against the Japanese and the Nationalists and had a number of important contacts in southern China, but he came back halfway through the Korean War suffering from wounds and disease, and remained inactive for the next eight years...
...outlined the elements of the cover story as he and the editors saw them, asked the Washington bureau (and several others) to come ahead with their own appraisals and those of their sources. Kriss suggested five major areas to be explored: the Kennedy mystique, Kennedy as campaigner, Kennedy the strategist, the Kennedy apparatus, Kennedy's political future...
...member of the Politburo's powerful Standing Committee since 1958, Lin in recent years has become Red China's leading Mao-based military strategist. His treatise, "Long Live the Victory of People's War," which was published last year, evoked startled interest in both Communist and non-Communist camps. Its thesis: that the poor nations of the world will isolate and overthrow the rich nations, just as China's peasants isolated and overthrew China's cities...
Headlined Die Zeit: WILLY BRANDT HAS RETURNED. Exulted a Social Democratic strategist: "Brandt has given the party an issue." In fact, East German Party Boss Walter Ulbricht gave the Social Democrats the issue by offering to start the dialogue in the first place. Social Democratic Deputy Chairman Herbert Wehner persuaded Brandt, who was cool to the idea at first, to accept. Since then, Brandt has made the cause his own. He conducted the negotiations, indeed decided to lead the debate himself, dramatically announcing that he would even resign his office as mayor and go simply in his nongovernmental capacity...
...Even more influential is London's Siegmund Warburg. He fled to Britain with less than $25,000 in 1933, later stormed the City's tight inner circle by investing in growing companies, reorganizing sick ones and exploiting his best asset: savvy in world finance. As a master strategist of Reynolds Metals' 1958 battle for control of British Aluminium, Warburg fought most of the British banking Establishment-and won. His S. G. Warburg & Co. also plotted most of the press takeovers by both Lord Thomson and Cecil King, helped Chrysler buy into Rootes Motors, arranged financing for Italy...