And Congressional Republicans, after initially expressing openness to the jobs plan, turned sour when Mr. Obama on Monday proposed to offset its short-term costs with future tax increases on wealthy taxpayers.
"But he said he had changed his mind after experiencing the openness of American society and after touring our military bases and meeting our enlisted men and women," Crowe recalled.
Syrian liberals enjoyed a brief "Damascus Spring" of greater openness after his accession, but it soon faded.
"On the other hand it's an extension of democracy and openness after the problems over expenses.
Immigration experts said Spain's relatively welcoming attitude reflected its new openness after the repression of the Franco years, when the country was a nation of emigration.
The speech was a glaring contrast to that of Chinese president, Xi Jinping, who spoke directly after to say "openness brings progress".
Mr. Panetta complained that he was being chastised for excessive openness after being criticized for excessive secrecy when he pushed to withhold details from the interrogation memos.
Second, Mr. Kabila's government, after promising reforms, openness and elections, has turned into a repressive rule that has tolerated little or no political opposition, jailed journalists and failed to respect basic human rights.
For the Olympics, there is also substantial popular support for temporary measures that seek to secure a stable social and political environment, but there will be less justification for such measures — and more support for openness — after the Olympics.
Page A4 GERMANY HOLDS TRANSCRIPT A day after promising greater openness and transparency in a televised interview, the president of Germany, Christian Wulff, refused to allow the country's biggest-selling newspaper to publish a transcript of a threatening voice mail message he left for the newspaper's editor.
