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Political Leadership, Political Violence
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The Washington Post
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June 4, 1990
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What do Mikhail Gorbachev, Saddam Hussein and Yitzhak Shamir
have in common? Not much, each would answer with speed and reason.
But there is a thread in recent events that connects them. Their
actions and words should focus our thinking about the relationship
between political leadership and political violence.
By an accident of timing, Gorbachev prepared to sit down with
President Bush at the Washington summit to talk peace just as Arab
leaders were sitting down at the Baghdad summit to endorse economic,
political and, if necessary, military war with Israel. The
television screens and newspaper pages that juxtaposed these events
were unconsciously illustrating two differing reactions ...
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