Word: statesmanship
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...that the Soviets' handling of the tragedy had created a severe diplomatic setback for Gorbachev, who has been trying to give the West the impression of openness and public debate. Gorbachev missed an opportunity to turn a potential public relations disaster into a triumph of Soviet good-neighborliness and statesmanship. Had he recognized the international dimensions of the radiation leak soon enough, had he thought through the consequences of trying to keep the catastrophe a secret and had he openly invited foreign scientists and technicians to help put out the fire, Gorbachev might have scored a brilliant diplomatic success...
Reagan came into office skeptical of arms control, and he has presided over the most serious and protracted breakdown in the Geneva talks. Yet, whether by Irish luck or intuitive statesmanship, he is currently in a position to get a far better deal out of the Soviets than any of his predecessors...
...larger than average number of candidates will vie for the seat because of its traditional associations with strong statesmanship, according to O'Neill. The late John P. Kennedy '40 represented the eighth district before O'Neill assumed office in 1952. O'Neill has held the seat since...
...international issues rather than as an excuse to ignore the views of the minority who opposed him, he can prove wrong those critics who fear a second Reagan term will witness a feeding frenzy for the ideologues on the radical right. Such a response would represent true Presidential statesmanship...
Reagan has recently told a number of close acquaintances in private that he honestly believes that thanks to his rearmament policies in the first term, the U.S. is now strong enough to give higher priority to negotiation; he would like to leave a legacy of statesmanship. The big question is not so much what Reagan wants in a second term but whether he knows how to get it. His aides have been, and remain, sharply divided, from the Cabinet-level disagreements of Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and Secretary of State George Shultz down to the trenches of the bureaucracy...