Word: blusterer
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...Burkina Faso's Paratroop Captain Thomas Sankara, 35, are striving to reverse years of economic decline, corruption and injustice. In this, they represent a large improvement over men who have given black African leadership the image of brutality and profligacy. Idi Amin, for instance, ruled Uganda with blood and bluster from 1971 to 1979, and Jean-Bedel Bokassa, the self-proclaimed "Emperor" of the Central African Republic, held his country in terror between 1966 and 1979, flogging and mutilating his opponents...
DIED. Harold Peary, 76, radio actor who starred from 1937 to 1950 as "The Great Gildersleeve," the pompous windbag with a heart of gold well hidden behind a wall of bluster, first on Fibber McGee and Molly and then on his own show, and made "You're a ha-a-ard man, McGee" and his trademark oily giggle national crazes; of a heart attack; in Torrance, Calif. Peary (born Harrold Jose Pereira de Faria) made several movies and numerous TV appearances as Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve and in other parts; the radio role, which he abandoned, was continued until...
...like an alarm clock at 3:30 to see if they're back." Every detail was flashed to the Commander in Chief. It was his war, just like all those bills up on the Hill were his bills. He tried to run the war like he ran Congress, with bluster and threat one minute, humility and doubt the next. He had the documents in his inner coat pocket, votes on his legislation, the latest body count from Viet...
Congressional skeptics suggest that Weinberger's policy is a further bit of bluster in his effort to win approval from Congress of $277.5 billion in fiscal 1986 defense spending, a $31 billion increase over the current budget. The Pentagon suspended payments to Hughes Aircraft last year for quality- control problems but then resumed them within a few months. Said Wisconsin Senator William Proxmire, a veteran critic of the Pentagon: "It's a beginning. But if this is all there is to it, it's not going to be enough...
...intricate world of Washington politics, however, bluff often works better than bluster. Compromise is the highest art form in the capital, and it is by no means clear whether Regan has the knack. The new chief of staff is typically confident. "My job," he says, "will be to see to it that we get the best compromise possible for the President or else recommend that he reject it." A Baker aide predicts a new way of doing business but the same positive results. "Baker thrived on interaction with a lot of people," he says. "Regan will rely on structure...