Word: outspoken
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...Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Butros Ghali and with French officials. Egypt has provided Iraq with ammunition and spare parts. In response, the Iraqi regime, a hard-line Arab government that once advocated the ostracism of Egypt after it signed a peace treaty with Israel, has become an outspoken proponent of Egypt's return to the Arab fold. After meeting with Ghali, Aziz said that Baghdad was committed to the "total reintegration" of Egypt with the Arab League...
...outspoken outspoken Democratic champion of Ronald Reagan's economic programs, Texas Congressman Phil Gramm could hardly be described as a perfect party man. So it came as no surprise last week when the Democrats' Steering and Policy Committee voted 26 to 4 to oust Gramm from his seat on the influential House Budget Committee. Gramm promptly resigned from Congress and announced he would run for re-election as a Republican. "My crime," he declared before a jammed press conference in his Sixth Congressional District office in Bryan, Texas, "was that I dared to practice in Washington what...
...Although the Archdiocese of Chicago is traditionally headed by a Cardinal, Bernardin was not awarded a red hat until four months after he succeeded the late John Patrick Cardinal Cody. The appointment firmly establishes Bernardin, at 54, as a leader of the U.S. hierarchy, which is becoming more outspoken on social, if not doctrinal, issues. To some Vatican observers, the Pope's honoring of Bernardin so soon after he was named head of the nation's largest archdiocese was also a sign that John Paul approved of the criticism of U.S. nuclear arms policy by a panel...
...their first Cardinals, and Oceania was represented by New Zealand's Thomas Stafford Williams. If the Pope chose a progressive archbishop in Bernardin, he also picked a conservative: Alfonso Lopez Trujillo, 47, of Medellin, Colombia, is president of the bishops' conference in Latin America and an outspoken foe of priests who have become active in leftist politics...
...eleventh full term as a Democratic Representative from New York City only a day before his death; of cancer; in Washington, D.C. Rosenthal made his mark in Congress as a consumer advocate, launching investigations into businesses that he suspected of preying on the powerless and poor. Equally outspoken on foreign affairs, he alienated the Johnson Administration with his early and persistent opposition to the war in Viet Nam, and last March introduced a resolution to end U.S. involvement in El Salvador...