Word: kampelman
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Dates: during 1993-1993
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...months ago, many Europeans and Japanese, beset by economic reverses and political paralysis, gazed at the young new American President with frank envy. Says Max Kampelman, a former U.S. diplomat and Ronald Reagan's chief arms-control negotiator: "I think the world was ready for a Bill Clinton leadership, but Bill Clinton wasn't ready. Our President has a capacity to lead, but he started out falling flat on his face." Eugene Rostow, an Under Secretary of State in Lyndon Johnson's presidency, had similar high hopes for fellow Democrat Clinton; he now finds himself "puzzled, startled, disappointed...