Word: cabal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like the boy who cried "Wolf!" Guinea's Marxist President Sékou Touré has called for help in fighting off invasions or coups so many times that people scarcely listen to him any more. Once it was a cabal of teachers and trade unionists from within Guinea. Another time it was a plot against Guinea launched by Ivory Coast President Félix Houphouët-Boigny, a longtime Touré enemy. There was an authentic assassination attempt by a knife-wielding Guinean in 1969, but the young fanatic bungled the job, and was lynched...
Sabry's political opposite is Zakaria Mohieddin, 52, former intelligence chief and a member of the original 14-man cabal that overthrew the monarchy. Mohieddin is an intellectual and Egypt Firster who favors a settlement with Israel and development of friendlier relations with the West; as a result, coffeehouse chatter brands him, unjustly but damningly, as "the C.I.A. candidate." When Nasser offered his calculated resignation following the Six-Day War, he named Mohieddin, then one of Egypt's three Vice Presidents, as his successor. Nasser quickly resumed his post and a year later, after a fallout over economic...
...create their own facades, to try to curtail this endless, endless hoarding of money by Harvard when so many other colleges are dying for the lack of only a little." Goodman chose Storer to deal with because, he says, "he's the most humane one in the tight cabal that runs the class-the only one who bothered to show up at my trial two years ago." The plan got nowhere-even a compromise version that would have earmarked part of the money for recruitment of and scholarships for black students at Harvard. "There are too many Southerners...
...Haldeman's acceptance of the Alumnus of the Year award, the speaker's tongue-in-cheek hypothesis was good for a chuckle or two. But coming from a member of an Administration more noted for hostility to the press than for intentional humor, the Eastern Establishment Media-cabal theory was certain to be taken seriously by many Americans. It took the White House to set matters straight, in a statement that described Haldeman's fantasy as "jesting...
...cabal of about 12 senior faculty members, headed informally by Thomas Schelling, professor of Economics. The group went to Washington Friday along with the Peace Action Strike, but spent most of the day meeting separately with Senators and Presidential aides, including foreign policy advisor Henry Kissinger, professor of Government (on leave...