Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...napped two hours a day, then revived with a cold shower rigged for 80 lbs. of pressure per square inch over his enormous body-and great gulps of Cutty Sark Scotch. Ike went through a heart attack, ileitis and a stroke but seemed to grow in kindness and wisdom as if to counterbalance his physical deterioration. He was as effective when he finished as when he started, but he was nowhere near as vigorous, physically or mentally...
...admirer of Gabriel GarcÍa Márquez's novels and a lover of numerous mistresses. "How could one fail," writes Greene with pointed sincerity, "to like this man?" The general had remained in power be cause of what Greene acknowledges was "a streak of cynical wisdom." Torrijos liked to announce, "I don't want to enter into history. I want to enter into the Ca nal Zone." If diplomacy failed to establish Panamanian sovereignty over the U.S. -built canal, there was always sabo tage: blow a hole in the Gatun Dam, and it would take three...
...infuriating irritant which might eventually go away. For its part, the Republic's government should have the courage of its own unspoken convictions, and welcome such a move as the only realistic option for the defeat of the terrorists who would destroy them as well. Americans must have the wisdom to back Fitzgerald and Thatcher in this--the calm of this particular moment gives us all an opportunity for an outbreak of statesmanship...
...Canadian foreign policy: Throughout the campaign, Mr. Mulroney exclaimed that he was prepared to give the benefit of the doubt to Mr. Reagan's foreign and defense policies. This will give little assurance to millions of Americans and our other friends who haved doubts on their own about the wisdom of the Reagan approach. The last thing the Western alliance needs is another conservative voice urging "Go Ron Go." Mr. Mulroney may learn that Canadians are little disposed to give up independence for sycophancy...
Nothing is likely to be settled soon. Assad has proved himself a master of the waiting game, stretching out talks before deciding not to decide. Murphy is in a position to test the wisdom of a statement he made last July that Syria had played a "helpful role" in the northern part of Lebanon. Whether that judgment applies to the south of the country depends on how much sympathy Assad shows toward Israeli concerns, and vice versa. -By James Kelly...