Word: statesmanly
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...year ago, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was under severe attack from "rejectionist" Arabs for signing the second Sinai accord with Israel. Now that there is new talk about peace initiatives in the Middle East, the rejectionists have become isolated, and Sadat has emerged anew as a moderate Arab statesman with clout. At home, he feels secure enough to have authorized the formation of political parties. In an interview last week with TIME Correspondent Wilton Wynn, Sadat declared that he was ready to sign a formal document ending the state of belligerency with Israel...
...aides are advising Ford to stay out of the fight and settle into a new role as an elder G.O.P. statesman-or party peacemaker, if the opportunity should appear. Said James Baker, who managed Ford's campaign: "The President ought not to get involved in the nitty-gritty [of a long fight], but I do think he and Governor Reagan and Governor Connally should agree on a consensus choice [for chairman] who is not tied to anyone's presidential ambitions. If we go through a bitter contest for control, we won't be able to make...
...fully convinced he could win the race and he disdained his opponent. There is no chance that he will make another try for the presidency-and almost none that he will seek any other elective office. In Republican Party councils, he will be welcomed as an elder, respected statesman. He did nothing to disgrace himself as President or campaigner. As he claimed, he restored trust and integrity to the presidency. And that was no accident...
...conference, the four black delegations studiously ignored the white Rhodesians. Nonetheless, the first two sessions were remarkably free of either the histrionics or the rude scenes that were feared by some of the Western observers. Joshua Nkomo, a moderate and the elder statesman of Rhodesian black nationalism, spoke first. To emphasize his conviction that Smith must play no significant role in the transition period, Nkomo stated that the conference should be one "strictly between Zimbabweans [Zimbabwe is the black African name for Rhodesia] of whatever color ... and the United Kingdom," which still technically retains sovereignty over Rhodesia. He vowed that...
There is a danger when a leader points out a direction and finds nobody willing to follow. As Henry Kissinger once put it: "A statesman who too far outruns the experience of his people will fail in achieving a domestic consensus, however wise his policies. [On the other hand], a statesman who limits his policies to the experience of his people is doomed to sterility...