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Visitors to China thus hear a degree of candor that is surprising in a Communist country-a circumscribed but nonetheless real outburst of public opinion. Of course, the kind of people visitors come in contact with guides and professionals, not workers and peasants-suffered the most in the Cultural Revolution and have the most to fear from any revival...
...deep concern with the decision Commissioner Cortese's office is currently making in regard to the MATEP plant. The issue is complicated and concerns matters that are riven with ambiguity. Nevertheless, I think that an objective view gives not only cause for alarm, but reasons for questioning the proponents' candor and integrity. I think that were this plant proposed by anybody but Harvard University, with their prestige and wealth, it would have long ago been unfavorably disposed...
...merely requires foresight, but the art of letting bad enough alone demands clairvoyance. That makes it a rare art indeed, and therefore William Agee may be forgiven for not having mastered it. At least he had not mastered it by the afternoon of Sept. 24. In a fit of candor, he faced 600 employees of the Bendix Corp., of which he is chairman, and tried to put to rest once and for all the rumors that his admittedly "close friendship" with attractive, blond Mary Cunningham, 29, had anything to do with her rise from executive assistant to vice president...
...reader. She says "the tender conscience and the tough mind alike are confounded by this diatribe." Making a plea for intellectual generosity and open-mindedness, Rich's rhetoric leaves no room for a more complex truth. It's refreshing to hear one feminist speak of another with more candor than piety...
Also recalled from banishment was Tadeusz Grabski, 51, former Central Committee member and first secretary of the local party in Konin. Grabski had complained bitterly in 1978 of the "chaos and confusion in our economy." That candor, widely circulated in the underground press, provoked his ouster from the Central Committee last year. The reinstatement of Grabski and Olszowski was an implicit condemnation of Gierek's disastrous economic record, marked by a $20 billion foreign debt and severely declining growth in 1979. To compound his humiliation, the Party Leader was forced in a nationally televised speech to praise "those comrades...