Word: statesmanship
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...when the purposes and goals of the alliance are considerably less clear than they used to be, the challenge is to find "a solution for the management of their diversity." Europe, Kissinger urged, should accept the challenge "not as a test of strength but as a test of joint statesmanship...
FOREIGN AFFAIRS. The President has wrought a historic change in relations with the two hostile superpowers, China and the Soviet Union, opening fresh chances for accommodation and peace throughout the world. His creative statesmanship was all the more remarkable for its turnabout from his own record of narrow anti-Communism and for being accomplished even while the Viet Nam War continued...
...India and Pakistan, Connally made a point of praising the "high statesmanship" of Indira Gandhi and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in their efforts to ease current strains, but there was no sign of a thaw in U.S.-India relations. From Pakistan, the magical mystery tourist flew on to a meeting with Pope Paul VI in Rome, then back...
...real issue. This is not a technological crisis. It is a social crisis, a sign of a confused society lacking well-defined priorities. There is no question that natural resources must be preserved and prudently managed. There is no question that growth and progress cannot be suppressed. We need statesmanship at the highest national level to assure a sound balance between the preservation of nature and the just as imperative demand to supply the energy needs of tomorrow...
...wing, Franz Josef Strauss's Christian Social Union, decided to vote against the treaties. Faced with that threat to party unity, Barzel reversed course, and only three hours before the final Bundestag vote, ordered the C.D.U. Deputies to abstain from voting. By opting for party unity instead of statesmanship, he earned the widespread condemnation of the West German press and reinforced his reputation as a political opportunist...