Word: outspoken
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...dissolution of a Zionist Israel and the establishment of a multiracial Palestinian state. Lately, however, Arafat has had to deal with guerrillas more militant and Marxist than he; they not only want to recover Palestine but also intend to reform Arab society. The most outspoken of these is George Habash, 44, a physician who heads the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The P.F.L.P. seeks to pressure the U.S. to back away from Israel or suffer economically: P.F.L.P. guerrillas have already hijacked a TWA jetliner to Damascus and blown up the Tapline through which U.S. oil companies move Saudi...
...Solzhenitsyn get away with his brave and outspoken protest? Dissenters in Russia today walk a highly precarious line. Solzhenitsyn, who served eight years in Stalinist labor camps, was summarily dismissed from the Soviet Writers' Union only last year. More recently, it has been rumored that his persistent protests might cause the state to declare him, too, mentally unbalanced, thus inflicting on him the very punishment he denounced. His latest protest may be a straightforward act of great courage, in disregard of consequences. But it may also be a last-ditch effort at self-preservation since, in view...
Such episodes hardly smoothed the way for Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme's unofficial visit to the U.S. last week. Palme, 43, an abrasively expressive Social Democrat, has been one of his nation's strongest critics of U.S. war policies. Advance word that Palme would be as outspoken in the U.S. as he is at home only increased the Administration's annoyance. Both sides tacitly agreed to forgo the customary White House courtesy call...
Below the Secretary as the nation's chief health officer is burly, outspoken Dr. Roger Egeberg, who was installed as second choice after an unseemly brawl in which the American Medical Association persuaded the President to veto Finch's favorite for the job, Boston's Dr. John H. Knowles (TIME, July 4). After eleven months on the job, Egeberg succeeded only last week in filling three of the five top spots (carrying the rank of deputy assistant secretary) with nominees who are politically acceptable to the Administration. Among the special agencies under Egeberg's authority...
...German prisons in World War II, and for a time was a member of the underground. He was equally opposed to the Communist takeover of Poland at the end of the war, and in his position as a popular novelist and journalist, he became one of the most outspoken opponents of the Gomulka regime...