71.  Republicans seem to want to maintain or increase defense spending, boost American leadership and emphasize traditional security interests.

72.  Skillful American leadership preserved the wartime coalition with the Soviet Union.

73.  Strobe Talbott made a striking appeal for the funds needed for American leadership.

74.  Thanks to Clinton, the world will be less likely to defer to American leadership from now on.

75.  That depends on American leadership.

76.  That sets up the potential for an historic Pax Americana, but only if we realize the peace will require strong American leadership in NATO.

77.  That was a fatal misjudgment, and a ludicrous one, because it was always obvious that the Europeans would not act without American leadership.

78.  That was a tough call that came with a cost as international indifference to corruption encouraged criminalization of the Russian economy and soured many Russians on American leadership.

79.  That is an alarming possibility, in a world dependent on American leadership.

80.  The hope of the world still rests, as it has throughout this century, on American leadership.