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Having made his point-in gloomier words than have been uttered recently by any other statesman, including U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger -Giscard then turned political leader and tried to offer solutions that might stave off the catastrophe. Although Giscard contended that France was in a better position than some other countries, he discarded the old Gaullist emphasis on national sovereignty and talked of interdependence among nations. He repeatedly used the French word concertation, which means cooperation and coordination, to describe the goal of France's new, post-Gaullist policy...
Ford's suits have been comfortably baggy and wrinkled. The men's clothiers are planning a massive counterattack to put him into some of those fastidious, elder-statesman outfits that Nixon and Johnson wore. No wrinkles, no bulges, no flaws. Nobody who really works can keep clothes like that, which may have been part of our trouble. Ford has been seen with buckle shoes, no-cuff pants and colored shirts. The other day he had on a gray shirt. Not a dirty shirt. Just a gray-colored shirt, like one of those which children and wives...
...alcove of Cairo's marble-and-alabaster Tahra Palace during his two-day visit with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, the Secretary of State conceded that for a historian, the signs might point in the direction of a decline of the West's political systems. But as a statesman, Kissinger emphasized: "I do not accept the decline of the West as a historical inevitability. I'm trying to be realistic and face what is ahead. You don't abolish these trends by not facing them...
...statesman today faces a dilemma, Kissinger told Schecter; he needs wide vision and yet is overwhelmed by events. A statesman "has no opportunity to think in longer terms. There is now a need for farsightedness of governments to an unusual degree. There is a need for leadership to have confidence." But in the U.S., he believes, there is a sufficient reserve of leadership. "America's ability to go through Watergate with its confidence intact" demonstrates its resiliency. "It is doubtful that any European country could go through the same upheaval without civil war," he adds. "The U.S. is still...
Died. Paul G. Hoffman, 83, statesman and global philanthropist; in New York City. A born salesman, Hoffman quit college at 18 to sell Studebakers in Los Angeles, cleared his first million at age 34 and became president of Studebaker ten years later. Impressed by his success in turning the ailing auto firm around, President Truman asked him in 1948 to head the Marshall Plan; over the next 2% years Hoffman dispensed more than $10 billion to revive Western Europe's war-shattered economy in a successful effort that brilliantly proved his argument that "prosperity is the best antidote...