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...speech, Reagan noted, "Some stories recently (have suggested that) remarks of mine on taxes and defense and freedom in our hemisphere have been--well, shall we say, plain and direct." The stories, the President happily confirmed, were entirely correct: "We have an obligation now to be as candid as we were last fall when these issues were very clearly debated and, I think, emphatically decided by the people." It was an example of the way he has been invoking his overwhelming reelection as a mandate for all his stands, whether or not he discussed them much during the campaign...
...could say we have wasted 20 years." Even in the relatively candid mood prevalent in Chinese ruling circles, that assessment from Communist Party General Secretary Hu Yaobang was blunt. In an article published last month in the current-affairs magazine Outlook, Hu blamed "radical leftist nonsense" for Communism's failure to meet the economic goals set after the 1949 revolution. Specifically, he warned that China can "never again afford" notions promoted by Mao Tse-tung during the 1958-59 Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and '70s. Hu's observations about the turbulent past highlighted China...
...before occurred. And another zag may not be far off. Given the probability that President Reagan will make at least one new court appointment, many observers predict that the states' righters may soon regain control. "The majority thinking in this case is doomed," says Velvel. Indeed, in a surprisingly candid judicial version of "the South will rise again," Justice William Rehnquist, author of the 1976 decision, last week wrote tersely, "I do not think it incumbent on those of us in dissent to spell out further the fine points of a principle that will, I am confident, in time again...
...Administration did pull its act together in one respect last week. Reagan admitted that Budget Director David Stockman had been "blowing his cool" in painfully candid testimony to Congress about military pensions and loans to farmers and college students. Earlier, White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan had called in Stockman to tell him that his gibes were upsetting the President and advised him to pipe down. The Budget Director obediently offered only relatively bland testimony last week, but that did not quiet his critics. When he was briefly hospitalized after feeling faint at a dinner party, a cruel...
...would shut off the most valuable piece of information: what the House's residents really think of living there. That you can only find out completely once you've moved in. And the best measures of what people really think are the council's referendum--which asked residents their candid of their House's quality of life--and the figures for which Houses people are trying escape from...