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...vice chairman of the Mississippi delegation. "If he goes out and builds up political lOUs," says Mounger, "he's going to be ready four years from now." Connally does not want to become Ford's campaign manager, which he considers a job for a technician, not a statesman of his stature. Besides, he doubts Ford-Dole can win. Still, Connally will visit nearly 100 congressional districts in 72 days to stump for candidates for Governor and Congress. The same tactic was used successfully in the 1966 election by Richard Nixon, who rose from the bone yard by crisscrossing...
Continuing the more independent and assertive diplomatic line laid down by his predecessor, Schmidt has not hesitated to mount the continental political stage. Intelligent, forceful, and pragmatic, Schmidt has already become the leading European statesman. Despite international mutterings of "Iron Chancellor" and the "Germany of old," Schmidt has not hesitated to use German economic muscle to safeguard German interests. He has warned the European Economic Community that Germany would no longer provide open ended funds to subsidize poorly conceived Community projects or stagnant, obsolete economic sectors of other countries. "Germany," according to Schmidt, "will no longer be the 'milch...
...Which would you rather be," the Athenian statesman Themistocles asked 2,400 years ago, "a victor in the Olympic Games or the announcer of the victor...
Amin, who is scarcely a model statesman (see box), will be a central figure in the Security Council debate, even though he will not be present. For this reason, some of the Africans who originally demanded the session have admitted privately that the proceedings were likely to be "very painful." The Israelis felt they would have little difficulty in indicting Amin as a partner in the skyjacking-if not in the planning, then certainly in the developments after the Airbus landed at Entebbe. This, says Jerusalem, is what gave Israel the right to intrude on Ugandan territory to save...
...political ploy. The meeting was called, so went the criticism, to strengthen the President's chance of gaining the Republican nomination over Challenger Ronald Reagan. The summit did serve that purpose. Ford, who is at his best in small groups, enhanced his status as a world statesman last week by playing the charming and well-briefed host to British Prime Minister James Callaghan, French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, Italy's lame-duck Premier Aldo Moro, Japanese Premier Takeo Miki and Canada's Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau...