Word: statecraft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year later he was elected a charter member of the Bundestag and served as its Vice President for 20 years before retiring in 1972. Co ordinator of programs under the 1963 Franco-German Reconciliation Agreement from 1969 until his death, Schmid bitterly regretted his late entry into statecraft: "I believed earlier that one should stay away from politics because one could so easily be dirtied. Then the Third Reich arrived, and I asked myself: Who is actually responsible...
Using Khomeini as a cover, extremists of the left are trying to reinforce their position, thereby setting the scene for possible civil war. The Ayatullah Khomeini, old and ailing, does not understand modern statecraft, diplomacy or administration. Jimmy Carter does not know how to deal with him; neither does anybody else. Says a European diplomat: "What can you do when faced with a mad geriatric case?" Yet this remarkable old man, and he alone, seems to possess the power to preserve his volatile country from total anarchy?and to free the rest of the American hostages in Tehran...
KISSINGER ON STATECRAFT...
...relies on to protect regional security. Where is the status quo best sustained, and where is it a lost cause? When should the U.S. stand by a client, despite his internal regime, and when should the U.S. begin to distance itself from him? In the context of statecraft, these questions are neither moralistic nor cynical. They are a matter of differentiating between those with whom the U.S. must live and those who will try to cling to the U.S. as they go under. There are at least four guides that might help in that differentiation...
...Vienna summit may have tipped the balance. It may have been the occasion when the show biz finally outweighed the statecraft. The meeting was important, yes. And the feelings that Leonid Brezhnev and Jimmy Carter develop for one another will linger and mark their actions. But the more than 2,000 reporters, commentators, anchormen, photographers, directors, scriptwriters and producers drawn to a summit now dwarf the participants in numbers, machinery and perhaps even in celebrity...