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Well he might. Shultz, with his determination to help mend the democratic process so badly bruised by the clandestine schemes he had opposed, imparts an aura of trust and candor to an Administration that has too often shown itself deficient in both...
...presidential race has come to resemble a marathon encounter session: long periods of tedium punctuated by embarrassing personal disclosures. The latest revelation came last week when Kitty Dukakis, 50, the seemingly self- assured wife of Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, publicly enrolled in the Betty Ford school of political candor. Her secret: 26 years of mild amphetamine dependency that ended in 1982 after she secretly entered a drug- rehabilitation clinic in Minnesota...
...bursts of candor, North pulled other officials more deeply into the scandal. "I'm not trying to pass the buck here, O.K.?" North declared angrily. "I did a lot of things and I want to stand up and say that I'm proud of them." But he denied acting alone as a "loose cannon . . . People used to walk up to me and tell me what a great job I was doing." Among them, he declared, was Secretary of State George Shultz, who opposed the Iran deals but, claimed North, "knew in sufficiently eloquent terms what I had done...
...This young woman has given the world its most riveting demonstration ever of the near superhuman demands of being a professional secretary. Skewered by the accusatory glare of global publicity like a pinned butterfly, she has faced her congressional inquisitors with poise and outlined her activities and opinions with candor, dignity and grace under the pressure of probing examination and political pettifogging. She offers no excuses for her absolute loyalty to her boss or for having provided her unquestioning support in pursuit of his operational goals. Fawn Hall has stolen the Iran-contra show...
Like a man running out of time, Mikhail Gorbachev did not dwell on niceties. Instead, he faced the 307-member Central Committee of the Communist Party and cut straight to the heart of his concern: the Soviet Union's bureaucracy- burdened economy. With characteristic candor, the Soviet leader faulted his predecessors for entrenching a system that promoted inefficiency, hampered industrial growth and destroyed national morale. Only "radical reform," he insisted, could put the economy back on its feet. In a challenge to his conservative critics, Gorbachev declared, "The possibilities of socialism . . . will be judged precisely by the progress and results...