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...those reforms to the long-stagnant cities, thereby promising the "invigoration" of notoriously sluggish industries and offering 200 million urban workers a chance to catch up with some of the 800 million peasants who have been enjoying the fruits of free enterprise for half a decade now. With startling candor, the document conceded that although socialism is superior to capitalism, "this superiority has yet to be brought into full play...
...there is a hint of hostility in this gesture, Susan Cheever does not acknowledge it. And this graveside vignette, reported with admirable candor and scant introspection, is typical of nearly all of Home Before Dark: a loving memorial journey accompanied by the unexamined impulse to throw something...
Dole's wit and refreshing candor have won him many friends in the clubby Senate, but his hard-driven style as a legislative manipulator could work against him. His record as a relative moderate--he has parted ways with the Reagan Administration on a number of key issues, including the need for tax increases to reduce the federal deficit--will insure him the support of GOP liberal mavericks, but may make him suspicious in the eyes of the right-wing. More damning still, the liberal Village Voice labelled Dole the "true thinking man's dark horse...
...There is a good deal more disclosure, openess and candor (in this report) than there was before," said CCSR Secretary Michael Blumenfeld. The report, "is in large part a response to the ACSR report which said 'lets see the numbers," he added...
Mondale hopes to score on candor with his deficit-cutting plan...