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...there is a glimmer of hope in the person of Rene Preval. The 53-year-old Belgian-educated businessman comes to office burdened with a reputation as a hard-left radical but seems to approach the job with realism. He could not be more unlike the ethereal Aristide: practical, plainspoken, decisive. "I know we must translate democracy into improvements in everyday life," he told TIME shortly before his inauguration...
...dresses in pinstripe suits, his bayonet-straight bearing and telegraphic speech immediately mark him as a military man. He is the former commander of Russia's 14th Army in the breakaway Trans-Dniestr region of the republic of Moldova, and he appeals to voters who yearn for a plainspoken general on a white charger to put things in order...
...were a better candidate in '88," Smith wrote. "Yet somehow along the way your authenticity has been sacrificed in the pursuit of ideological purity. The ironic result of trying to placate the right is to undermine those very qualities of personal courage and plainspoken leadership which are among your greatest assets and your greatest source of appeal to the vast majority of non-ideological voters who want things to work...
...Henry Foster, President Clinton's controversial nominee for Surgeon General, furthered his cause with a plainspoken appearance at his Senate confirmation hearing, during which he explained that his inconsistent recollections about the number of abortions he has performed over the years were nothing more than "an honest mistake." Foster still faces tough floor opposition from G.O.P. presidential hopefuls Bob Dole and Phil Gramm...
Wang, 42, is a 20-year veteran of the party, an obscure novelist and a self-described entrepreneur who lives mainly on his royalties and profits from playing the stock and futures markets. His Third Eye was an extended political essay, startlingly plainspoken by Chinese standards but relatively abstruse to Western eyes and far from a liberal tract. Even Chinese readers disagree whether its observations tend to support Deng or his radical opponents...