Word: blunt
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...Soviet missions to the United Nations in New York City employ more people than the next two biggest delegations, those of the U.S. and China, combined? Because, Washington bluntly charged last week, many of the supposed Soviet diplomats are really spies. The accusation was contained in an equally blunt order: over the next two years, Moscow's three missions (two officially represent the Ukrainian and Belorussian Soviet Republics) must reduce their staffs from a present total of 275 to 170. The Soviets may choose who stays and who goes; if they do not, the U.S. will make the decision...
...forces led by Enrile and Ramos. On Sunday evening, Shultz and Under Secretary of State Armacost met at the State Department with Blas Ople, Marcos' Minister of Labor, who had come to Washington to plead the Philippine President's case. According to Ople, the American diplomats gave him a blunt message: Marcos had lost control of his army, the troops under General Ver were ineffectual, and if Marcos did not step down, the country could be heading for civil war. A similar statement was sent to the U.S. Ambassador in Manila, Stephen Bosworth, who took it to Marcos...
When Senator John Danforth of Missouri led a congressional delegation on a trip to Japan last month, he delivered a letter from 13 Senate colleagues to Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone and Michio Watanabe, the Japanese Minister of International Trade and Industry. In it was a blunt warning: "This would be an especially unfortunate time for Japan to further increase its auto imports...
...private investments. Kissinger, tight-lipped about the nature of the advice, volunteers, "An obvious case is South Africa. They want to know what do I think is going to happen there? In the Middle East? We give them a political risk assessment." Kissinger's advice to prospective clients is blunt: "If they are looking for hot tips, they are not going to get them. We can be useful in strategy, middle-term decisions." What they get, says Eagleburger, is "Henry's fingerspitzengefuhl," his instinctive feel for a situation...
...currency, a measure recommended by U.S. officials but resisted by Duarte because it would raise & prices of essential imported goods. The government had kept down the price of such imports, including chemical and petroleum products, by maintaining an artificially high exchange rate for its currency. Duarte sought to blunt the immediate effects of devaluation by freezing prices on medicines and basic foods. He also increased salaries for government workers 17%, hiked the minimum daily wage for peasants and industrial workers from $1 to $1.60, and froze rents on low-income housing. But these measures are not likely to stave...