Word: statesman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that he has taken himself out of the running for the Democratic nomination for President, New York Governor Mario Cuomo seems to be relishing the dual role of active politician and youngish elder statesman. Last week Cuomo offered the White House an intriguing suggestion for achieving an arms- reduction agreement with the Soviet Union: give the job of chief negotiator to former President Richard Nixon...
...transactions that are little understood by the general public, the scandal could sting the Tories, who are running neck and neck with the Labor Party in opinion polls. "Watergate was amazingly complex, and people didn't follow the minute details," says Peter Kellner, political columnist for the liberal New Statesman magazine. "But there came a time when it wasn't the detail that mattered, but the general stink...
...cemetery for German World War II veterans and SS officers, Bitburg. The visit justifiably caused an international furor, but one which led to a nationalistic reaction among Germans agitated by the attention brought to the Hitler years. In a widely praised and widely publicized speech, the 67-year old statesman took his nation--and his own political party--to task for trying to forget its Nazi past...
...Chief of Staff Donald Regan, to become a counselor at Georgetown University's Center for Strategic and International Studies. He missed the excitement of Government service, for all its headaches, and Iranscam probably extinguished his prospects of becoming a policymaker again. Instead of being regarded as a wise elder statesman as he had hoped, McFarlane found himself viewed as the official who had first favorably presented a plan to sell arms to Iran, and thus led the way into a disaster that has profoundly shaken the presidency he tried to serve...
...children, Khashoggi is not a merchant-statesman, but "Baba." His four sons and one daughter by his first wife, Soraya, are all students in the U.S. He and his second wife, Lamia, have a son Ali, 7, who lives most of the time at their house in Cannes. Although he considers himself a traditional disciplinarian and keeps his children on a budget, they do have fringe benefits: the older boys have been known to impress their dates with a tour of the family plane...