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Johnson concluded: "Candor requires that I warn you the time is not far off when all the combined production on all the acres of all of the agriculturally productive nations will not meet the food needs of the developing nations unless present trends are changed...
...lack of candor and foresight displayed in this case unfortunately seem characteristic of the administration's approach to local boards and the draft in general. The administration has not yet announced what kind of system it will use to rank students once the national plan for tests and rankings goes into effect. It has left in doubt the status of Russell Beecher's successor as draft advisor in the office of Graduate and Career Plans. And it has failed thus far to specify what kind of data--and how much--it is prepared to send local boards...
...Pierce the Apathy. Either way, Lyndon Johnson did not help his cause in 1965 by a lack of candor on the severity of the war or the scope of U.S. involvement in Viet Nam. "Light" and "moderate" are still the official euphemisms to describe U.S. losses in even the bloodiest engagements...
...Czech economy from the worst rigidities of Stalinist central planning and to introduce widespread Western profit incentives for factory managers. Though the plan has yet to be unveiled, last week Prague's Central Committee published a 19,000-word preamble to NEM that was remarkable in its candor about past mistakes...
...Candor in a military dictator is a rare quality, and self-criticism rarer still. But Burmese Strongman General Ne Win offered both in abundance at a recent Rangoon seminar of his Socialist Program Party. The topic: potholes in Ne Win's "Burmese road to socialism," launched soon after he took power in 1962 and began nationalizing every thing in sight. The economy, confessed the general, "is in a mess." So much so, he added, that "if Burma were not a country with an abundance of food, we would all be starving...