Western statesmen were inclined to link the military and naval facilities in the Indian Ocean to those found in its littoral states.

Of course President Clinton has not been alone among Western statesmen in the weakness that has allowed the Bosnian Serbs to carry out their genocide.

Mr. Genscher is the Western statesman who has been the most eager to establish warm relations with Moscow.

Putin, Russia & the West tells the inside story, with contributions from Putin's top colleagues and the Western statesmen who have clashed with him.

Indeed, some of the smartest Western statesmen of the last century have found themselves flummoxed by Islam.

The cold war had ended, and on terms no Western statesman had dreamed of.

It is above all the British who have made conspicuous calls on dissidents a fixture of visits by Western statesmen to Eastern Europe.

Western statesmen recognized that Croatia could act as a counterweight to Serbia, then bent on aggression.

Perhaps no Western statesman banked more openly on the possibility of success at the interminable and largely ritualistic Geneva disarmament negotiations.

Chief among them was the presumption, often repeated by politicians and Western statesmen, that the peace was irreversible.