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Kissinger attributes the present crisis of leadership in the Western world-and the Soviet Union as well-to problems resulting from the process of industrialization. This had led to "bureaucratic immobilization" and "bureaucratic populist paralysis." England, Greece, Spain, Portugal and Italy all suffer from it, although the U.S. does not. The new leaders hi France and West Germany, he believes, appear to have eased that problem there...
Sadat could not miss the long-term warning and the serious threat implicit in the strange incident. The plotters were obviously motivated by their angry opposition to Egypt's (hence Sadat's) current pro-Western policies. Throughout the Arab world-and within Egypt itself-there was deep apprehension that Sadat is going too far and too fast to the American side. That Egypt's President is willing to risk such criticisms is one indication of his determination to change the course of his nation. How much change he can effect will depend to a large extent...
...legitimate sovereign state is at once an enormous victory and a profound challenge. It also amounts to something of a surprise for the West. Long hidden in the shadow of its bitter rival, West Germany, the "other Germany" has become the ninth largest industrial power in the world-and by far the richest Communist state in per capita terms. Already the East Germans have surpassed the Italians and the Irish in per capita income, and they are closing in on the British...
...editors and senior executives, but also with a roster of industrial and financial experts and Government officials. One day was spent in Washington, where the group lunched with Treasury Deputy Secretary Charls E. Walker. All of which, I am sure, will help our representatives serve our clients round the world-and ultimately our readers...
...Rosh Hashanah, the beginning of the New Year-by Jewish reckoning the 5,732nd since the creation of the world-and the congregation had been crowding into Manhattan's new Lincoln Square Synagogue since shortly after sunrise. Now Rabbi Steven Riskin and the cantor huddled together. "Tekiah," intoned the rabbi softly, using the Hebrew command for a long blast on the shofar. The cantor tensed his cheeks and raised the ram's horn to sound the melancholy note, the first of a hundred blasts that began the High Holy Days...