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...Ronald Reagan is inflexible. I say that he shows firmness of purpose, and I welcome the quality, which was so lacking in his predecessor. The President las every reason to be optimistic. Because of his policies, I no longer have to brace myself whenever I go into a store against the soaring prices caused by inflation. In addition, you note that the President ignores the advice of his subordinates. We elected Reagan, not his aides...
...come from as far as Cuba and Viet Nam to mark the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Soviet Union. Dressed in a smartly tailored blue suit and maroon tie, Andropov looked well-rested and healthier than he had five weeks earlier at the funeral of his predecessor, Leonid Brezhnev. But his sober demeanor suggested that he had reserved an important message for his first major televised speech to the nation...
...same time, De la Madrid is expected to undo quietly some of the excesses of his predecessor's final days in office. While respecting López Portillo's decision to take over the country's banks, he may try to divest the state of nonfinancial enterprises controlled by the banks that were also swept up in the nationalization move. In his inaugural address De la Madrid said that the government would support the "legitimate rights and incentives" of "responsible" entrepreneurs. The statement was seen as an endorsement of private enterprise, although De la Madrid also insisted...
...crisis from within his own political power base, Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (P.R.I.), which since 1929 has exercised a monopoly over Mexican political life (see box). Like the eleven Presidents who have held office in the past half-century, De la Madrid was hand-picked by his predecessor after secret consultations with a tiny group of economic and political oligarchs. According to the official returns, he won the national election last July with 74.4% of the 23.6 million votes cast...
...pragmatic and quiet but firm negotiator rather than an inspired political leader for difficult times. De la Madrid's reputation is based on his mastery of the details of economic planning, his simplicity of style and his personal probity. Few of those qualities were associated with his predecessor, López Portillo, by the end of the latter's six-year term...