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During his two-term mayoral stint, which ended in 1980, the tough-talking Rizzo earned enemies among blacks and liberals for his outspoken support of a police department they considered to be brutal to blacks and insensitive to citizens' rights. To soften his combative image during the current campaign, Rizzo signed up for some public relations cosmetology. First he hired New York Media Consultant David Sawyer, who attempted unsuccessfully to portray his barrel-chested client as wiser and mellower. Then Sawyer's replacement, Baltimore Consultant Robert Goodman, promised to show "not the old Rizzo or the new Rizzo...
...European ancestry, many of them from Italy, and among the missing are some 400 people of Italian citizenship or descent, 35 Spaniards and 15 French, including two nuns. Italy's President Sandro Pertini took the lead, denouncing the junta's "chilling cynicism." The Vatican was no less outspoken, rejecting the report as incomprehensible and full of "agonizing questions." At his weekly audience, Pope John Paul II declared that "the insistent problem of the disappeared ones has always been, and now is more than ever, in my soul...
...convivial and outspoken Stone, 54, is ready to try again, this time as President Reagan's special envoy to the roiling governments of Central America. Stone's daunting new job, says Deane Hinton, the American Ambassador in El Salvador, will be "to wander around Central America and straighten everything out." Although most State Department officials bristled at the President's choice, saying they would have preferred a career diplomat, one defended Stone as a "doer" with the proper credentials: "A great big foot, a thick skin and a great big mouth...
...role as a self-described "citizen of our Atlantic community," Helmut Schmidt has become, if anything, even more outspoken than during his eight years as Chancellor of West Germany. He still has harsh things to say about U.S. leadership of the alliance. But he remains a firm believer in checking Soviet expansion, and, like his successor Helmut Kohl, he is committed to the NATO "double-track" decision. Excerpts from Schmidt's keynote address to TIME'S Atlantic Alliance Conference...
...campus with minority students and female college masters as pictured in the Times, the 43-year-old A. Bartlett Giammatti is probably out blasting the Moral Majority or making statements against the Reagan Administration's defense budget. It isn't for nothing that Giamatti has earned the title "The Outspoken President of Yale...