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...moment last week it seemed that the members of the new Commission on Civil Rights might banish whatever bitterness they harbored from last year's skirmishes and stand together. The commissioners answered Democrat Walter Mondale and others who criticized them as puppets of the Reagan Administration with a blunt statement: "The commission belongs to no one . . . and will serve no political ideology or special interest. That is the meaning of our independence. It is uncompromisable...
...opening paragraphs of the book showcase Cardinal's sense of nuance and suggestion at its best. In this passage she hints at many of the themes in her story without making blunt statements or obvious comparisons...
...Thayer is forced to step down, the Administration would lose a redoubtable scrapper in the struggle against soaring Pentagon spending. He had challenged the costly proposals of Navy Secretary John Lehman, who argues strenuously for a 600-ship Navy. In Thayer, a tough, blunt former naval aviator and test pilot, Lehman had an adversary of substance. This fall Lehman complained that he was "sick and tired of spending 98% of my time up on the Hill undoing the damage that senior Defense officials are doing to the President's budget." By "senior officials," Lehman meant Thayer, who reportedly responded...
...singular combat zone. Yet a provocative phrase cropped up in news reports: "Not since the end of the war in Viet Nam. . ." Some of the analogies were impressionistic and wrong: the Middle East, Central America and the Caribbean are not Indochina. But some of the bench marks were plain, blunt facts. Not since Viet Nam, until Beirut, had so many U.S. servicemen been killed in a single day. Not since then, until Grenada, had U.S. servicemen launched a combat operation of such size. Not since then, until a Navy A-6 was shot down over Lebanon, had a U.S. fighter...
...Pueblo reservation in New Mexico, and the Baronas plan to build a $2.5 million arena with room for 2,000. "Bingo is benefiting our people," says Arthur Welmas, the Cabazons' tribal chairman. "It's giving us pride." The tribe's business manager, John Paul Nichols, is blunt. Says he: "We have ourselves a little gold mine...