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...next day Reagan and Figueiredo, 64, were together almost constantly. The two men talked privately for 30 minutes, then summoned Treasury Secretary Donald Regan, Secretary of State George Shultz and other officials from both governments for an additional hour of discussion. Said a Brazilian official: "The conversations were very candid and yet very gentle." The Falklands, Shultz said, "didn't come up as a matter of dispute." In fact, Brazil only halfheartedly supported Argentina in the war, mostly out of a sense of continental solidarity...
...year plan for China's development from 1981 to 1985 that stressed small strides instead of great leaps. Zhao predicted an average annual growth rate of only 4%, which, in fact, has already been surpassed in the past two years (1982 growth rate: 5.7%). Zhao was also refreshingly candid about his country's economic difficulties, admitting that Peking's decision three years ago to shift emphasis from traditional heavy industry toward light industry turned out to be inefficient and time consuming...
...heroic portraits of Adolf Hitler that decorated German government offices during the Nazi regime were mainly slavish copies of those done by Heinrich Hoffmann, Hitler's official photographer. Last week, 37 years after the German leader's death, the only known candid live portrait of the Fuhrer, carefully hidden from the Gestapo by the worried artist Klaus Richter, went on display at the Berlin Museum for the first time. Richter caught Hitler in profile almost by accident in 1941, while making sketches for a commissioned portrait of Luftwaffe Chief Hermann Goring. The German leader suddenly appeared with Benito...
...were right for the church, or for the nation. And the document that the bishops debated, instead of being couched in the traditional terms of moral certitude, asked Catholics not to read and obey, but to weigh and consider the conclusions, much as had the bishops themselves. Both the candid, probing manner of the debate and the topic of their discussion reflect the enormous changes that are sweeping through the Catholic Church in America...
...joke. White, 42, the state's conservative attorney general who has a penchant for populist rhetoric, drubbed Clements, 53% to 46%. The next day, Clements was as vividly candid as ever: "We not only got beaten at the line of scrimmage, but we probably needed another quarterback. When you take a shellacking, you lick your wounds and come back another...