Word: blunt
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Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado visited Brasilia last week to confer with his Brazilian counterpart, Joào Figueiredo. The two leaders had some blunt words for their creditors. Figueiredo complained of high interest rates that "threaten to perpetuate our foreign debt problems." De la Madrid said, with much justification, that Latin America could not boost exports enough to pay its debts if creditor countries erected "ever increasing protectionist measures" against imports from the developing nations. The day before De la Madrid spoke, the Reagan Administration announced a cutback in the number of products allowed to enter...
Hart, as a loner who stands outside of the Washington old-boy network, skeptical of New Deal social programs and U.S. intervention abroad, naturally appeals to this group. He began courting it in his first Senate race in 1974 with a blunt campaign slogan: "They've Had Their Turn. Now It's Ours...
Eldest Daughter Maureen, 43, has also caused controversy, but of a different sort. Her longtime support of the Equal Rights Amendment (which Reagan opposes) and blunt opinions provoked archconservative Activist Terry Dolan to request last week that she be " muzzled." There is little chance of that. The President said last week that he was "completely satisfied" with Maureen's performance as a consultant on women's issues to the Republican National Committee...
Privately, British officials were blunt in observing that U.S. prestige suffered badly as a result of the collapse of Gemayel's government and the announcement of the Marine redeployment. Said a London diplomat: "Now Soviet propaganda can have a field day with what is truthfully a humiliating defeat for American foreign policy." The French were even more critical, although their 1,250-member MNF detachment will remain in Beirut while President Francois Mitterrand seeks a U.N. replacement. Said a senior French spokesman: "We will either revive the idea of a U.N. force [in Beirut], or we will conclude that...
...Bill Monroe, Sam Donaldson. They allow their subjects no easy outs or blurred distinctions. It's show time. Mixed in with these are opinionated questioners, such as George F. Will and Robert Novak, who bring decided views over from their editorial-page columning. Put together Donaldson's blunt demeanor and Will's ideological questions on This Week with David Brinkley, and Brinkley, who once seemed acerb, comes out courtly by contrast. But then Brinkley was never as fiercely acerbic as his reputation; the targets of his own wry remarks tend to be "politicians," "bureaucrats," "generals," but only...