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...chunky, cigar-chomping Hinton has been in El Salvador for two years. His unusual blend of realism, toughness, charm and candor earned him wide respect among the Salvadorans, and he seemed to be carrying out Washington's policy with great skill. He irked the White House recently by publicly scolding the Salvadoran government on its lax prosecution of human rights abuses, but did so at Enders' urging...
DIED. Jory Graham, 55, newspaper columnist, author and lecturer whose weekly A Time to Live, syndicated in 50 newspapers, chronicled her spirited eight-year battle with cancer for an audience often inspired by her courage and candor; of cancer; in Chicago. Graham, who began the column to help cancer patients like herself face up to the reality of the disease, wrote last month: "Long ago, I promised I would let you know when I came to the time of my dying. That time has come...
...increasing riches. On one occasion, when he received an envelope that felt full of money, he artfully opened and emptied it without actually looking inside, "that I might say I saw no money in the paper if ever I should be questioned about it." It is that candor, conveying irresistibly the sense of life as it was, that finally begins to make Pepys rather likable after all. And so history has come to rely on his vivid descriptions of all he saw: the Restoration of the Crown after the Cromwellian revolution, the Great Fire of London, the return...
Brzezinski has a point. But as so often in the past, he is complaining about a problem largely of his own making. For all his intellectual adroitness and rhetorical flair, he also has a huge blind spot. He does not seem to realize how often his candor, when directed at others, looks like malice and, when directed at himself, looks like shameless egotism...
...that he must keep his distance from the unpopular and defeated Carter. In a newspaper interview last month, Mondale made clear that he had differed with Carter on such controversial decisions as building the MX, selling arms to the Saudis and imposing the grain embargo on the Soviets. His candor caused Mondale to be accused of disloyalty. A few days later, at a Georgia rally where six candidates appeared-to Mondale's relief, Carter was traveling in the Middle East-Mondale was the only speaker who failed to mention Carter's name. The criticism increased, and he called...