Word: ruthlessness
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Things obviously have changed since the two first met, when Kissinger reportedly referred to Chou's heir apparent as "that nasty little man." Ruthless and arrogant, the tiny (4ft. 11-in.) Vice Premier is considerably different in style from his urbane predecessor. He lacks Chou's subtlety and sinuous charm, not to mention his manners. In the middle of a conversation, he will often expectorate noisily into a handy spittoon. "You must forgive me," he may say. "I am just a country...
...just too imprecise. Even the carrot and the stick, he says, are a gift of a friend to commemorate an article--on public policy. Fisher's is the attitude that has prompted one House tutor to comment of the office of career service, "What used to be a ruthless preprofessional machine is now the last haven of middle-aged hippiedom...
...Says he, as aides hover around with neat folders of documents: "We thought we were going to have a whopping $1 billion deficit in the balance of payments, but we have been able to cut it by half. We made an across-the-board budget cut in all departments. Ruthless, but what can you do? There is no other...
Front Men. When Marcos grins, it is hard to believe that the man could be ruthless. He has charm and accessibility in equal abundance. But his steely quality emerges clearly when he discusses his seizure of absolute power and the imposition of martial law. "I am one of those who felt guilty about the old system," he says. "But I realized I was a captive of it and so did a lot of other people. The [earlier] Presidents seemed to me as if they were just front men for the oligarchs behind them and, well, I wasn't going...
...special prosecutor, tough, single-minded Maurice Hyman Nadjari has been both praised and damned for his relentless crusade against official corruption. To his defenders he was upright, honest and dedicated in his pursuit of larcenous cops, politicians, judges and even fellow prosecutors. To his detractors he was unorthodox, ruthless, overzealous, tyrannical and inept. Last week, in a meeting that lasted less than three minutes, New York Governor Hugh Carey told Nadjari to clean out his desk. For Carey, who is thought to be eying a spot on trie Democratic national ticket, the firing could prove a costly blunder. At best...