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...Soviet government's astonishingly blunt report on Chernobyl is but one of a number of examples of Party Leader Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of glasnost, or openness. In recent months Soviet officials and journalists have been discussing the difficulties and shortcomings of their society with unprecedented candor, and newspaper and magazine editors have been publishing more and more critical letters from readers...
...candor goes well beyond the public media. Earlier this year Boris Yeltsin, the Gorbachev-appointed party boss for Moscow, surprised a meeting of propagandists with a blistering denunciation of the past administration of the city. Yeltsin described Moscow's well-known but seldom mentioned urban woes in painful detail. A million Muscovites still live in communal apartments where they share cooking and toilet facilities with other families, Yeltsin pointed out, while in the past decade the city has slipped from second place in the Soviet Union to 58th in new-housing construction. Drunkenness, he continued, has not diminished...
...users know, journalese is a formidable bulwark against libel, candor and fresh utterance. Any threat to its state-of-the-art ground-breaking terminology would have a chilling effect on everybody, especially us award- winning journalists...
Mechanical problems are, of course, a valid reason for delaying an airliner. But with rare candor, Eastern Air Lines admitted last week that in July it had averaged 39 cancellations of 1,500 daily flights because of lagging maintenance. "Eastern is having extraordinary problems," conceded Spokesman Jerry Cosley. "Our employees are catching hell at the airports." This month Eastern scrubbed its daily flight from Miami to London on four successive days because its only available DC-10 required engine repairs. On one day Eastern kept 285 passengers waiting five hours before announcing the cancellation. On the fifth day, it kept...
...that he is the man who just a month ago called Ronald Reagan "a new Hitler." Instead, the seasoned comandante played the polished politician, while he embarked on a campaign to win American hearts and minds. During meetings with political, church and press groups, he answered questions with some candor, trying, though not always successfully, to steer clear of revolutionary jargon. Appearing before the United Nations Security Council, he appealed for U.N. endorsement of a recent World Court decision that called for Washington to stop supporting the contra rebels. "We do not want confrontation," he declared. "Nicaragua is willing...