Word: statesmanship
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...than he or anyone else had expected. Instead of the anticipated division and discord, the seven al lies had affirmed their unity in the face of Soviet provocation and set a common policy to combat inflation and develop energy alternatives to oil. Moreover, Carter had shown signs of the statesmanship that many critics had found missing during his 3½ years in the White House...
...concedes that "there is a Gaullist tradition in modern French history, but there is also the heritage of Vichy, and it is not at all certain that the Gaullist tradition has prevailed of late. Contemporary appeasement has many guises: it appears under the mask of superior wisdom, experience and statesmanship, as well as under the slogan of a 'special relationship' with the Soviet Union...
Nothing demonstrated Mugabe's statesmanship more dramatically than the unveiling of his broad-based 24-member Cabinet, which will officially take office after an April 18 independence ceremony presided over by Britain's Prince Charles. As expected, the lion's share of portfolios went to Mugabe's own Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU), which won a sweeping majority in last month's parliamentary elections. But in keeping with his postelection pledge of "reconciliation," Mugabe also included two prominent whites. David Smith, 58, a plain-spoken Scot who was Rhodesia's Finance Minister and Deputy...
...reintroduction of Selective Service registration--the first step towards a new military draft--President Carter has made a hasty and dangerous decision, one that will affect all Americans, not just those eligible to be drafted. Carter is placing a politically opportunistic "get tough with the Russians" attitude before sound statesmanship by raising the ante in his battle with the Soviet Union with the lives of the 33 million men and women in the 18 to 26-year-old age group...
...mixture of politics and show business is not merely expedient; it is also natural. Each world, by its nature, plays to the crowd. The politician and the performer equally require public attention and feed on popular adulation. As either politics or statesmanship, government has always relied on a heaping measure of theatricality. Royal pageantry evolved not entirely to oil the vanity of the overlords but also to satisfy the human craving for symbolic ceremonials. The politician's own requirements in a democracy carried things a step further. To win a constituency, the politician must first gather a crowd...