Word: outspoken
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...bureaucratic battle over missile throw-weights would not seem to be the stuff of which best sellers are made. But when the author is Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle, the Administration's outspoken hawk, some publishers are willing to take a chance. Perle wants to write a novel about his arms-control struggles with the more dovish former Assistant Secretary of State Richard Burt, now the U.S. Ambassador to West Germany. Perle has circulated a five-page outline for his first work of fiction, and bidding for the book has reportedly passed...
...trouble began two weeks ago, when outspoken Finance Minister Yitzhak Moda'i, a Likud member, blasted Peres in newspaper interviews. Moda'i, who holds degrees in engineering, economics and law, said Peres deserves no credit for bringing Israel's runaway inflation under control because the Prime Minister "knows nothing of economics and is by nature a man who gives in." Moda'i later called Peres "the flying Prime Minister" because of his many trips abroad, and accused Labor ministers of "cynical fraud" for bailing out businesses owned by Histadrut, the Israeli trade-union confederation...
...opposition's greatest enemy, however, may be the students who have grown progressively more outspoken during the past five years. About 5% of the country's 1 million students are radicals, and some of them even take as their hero Libyan Colonel Muammar Gaddafi and call for the removal of all U.S. bases. Their first aim, somewhat unrealistically, is nothing less than immediate unification with the North. As student protests have grown more hard line, government crackdowns have become more hard hitting. The opposition constantly cautions students to be more moderate, and Lee Min Woo recently said that they should...
...masters make every effort to attend house committee and house functions. They do not eat in the dining hall that frequently. Master Dowling tries to dictate social policy in the house, and his outspoken distaste for alcohol at Leverett functions has left many students with a bad feeling about social life in the house...
From the burning of the U.S. embassy in Tripoli in 1979 to his outspoken support for the murderous attacks at the Rome and Vienna airports last December, Muammar Gaddafi has left a trail of blood and destruction during the past decade. Acting Ambassador-at-Large Robert Oakley told Congress in February that while Syria and Iran "remain very much involved" in fomenting international terrorism, "over the past six months Libya has become by far the most active, especially against American and European travelers. If it cannot be stopped, others can be expected to follow...