Word: outspoken
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...most of the participants knew that the President strongly disagreed with them on how the central issues should be resolved. As a visitor who came to Cancún bearing good will but no concessions, Reagan, or at least his advisers, fully expected some nasty condemnations by the more outspoken of the Third World leaders present. But few hisses were heard. Not only were the formal sessions remarkably free of rancor, but the summit gave Reagan a chance to hold surprisingly friendly chats with many of the leaders. "None of them were hostile," said one top White House aide. "They...
...price war is only the latest in a series of headaches for Laker, and the outspoken Sir Freddie has begun to sound as cranky and befuddled as many of the competitors he undercut to get a share of the North Atlantic route four years ago. Sniped he of the Pan Am action: "It is nothing less than suicidal marketing that could endanger the fabric of the airline industry as a whole...
...would be an admission that the Sandinistas had abandoned their commitment to pluralism and freedom of the press, and were drifting toward totalitarianism. But with the Nicaraguan economy in a tailspin and public restiveness on the rise, the government seems increasingly unwilling to give free rein to so outspoken a critic. If La Prensa is crushed, said Vice President George Bush last week in Rio de Janeiro, the Sandinistas will "make it strikingly clear in the eyes of the world that they fear the truth." Perhaps the most poignant statement on the fate of the troubled newspaper came from...
...Chief Minister of India's bustling southwestern state of Maharashtra, Abdul Rehman Antulay, 52, had built a reputation as an outspoken local leader of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's Congress (I) Party. Antulay has presided in the state capital of Bombay over an ambitious array of populist projects designed to enhance both the party's image and his own. But last week Antulay was the center of a major scandal, in which he is alleged to have dispensed patronage and other favors in return for contributions and is said to have used Prime Minister Gandhi...
DIED. Alton Ochsner, 85, internationally renowned surgeon, teacher and medical researcher who in 1936 suggested a link between cigarette smoking and lung cancer; after heart surgery; in New Orleans. An outspoken critic of American health habits, he co-founded the Ochsner Clinic in New Orleans in 1941 and served as its director of surgery for 24 years, training heart specialists like Michael DeBakey and attending such patients as Argentina's President Juan Peron, Golfer Ben Hogan and Actor Gary Cooper...