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Later, the Pope met with and expressed support for a group of conservative bishops from Haiti--a cabal appointed by the church and long implicated in the suffering of the Haitian people...

Author: By Kenneth R. Walker, | Title: The Pope as Ronald Reagan | 10/19/1992 | See Source »

...This cabal is crashed by the narrator, Richard Papen, a penniless transfer student who had taken some Greek. He is as close as the book comes to an objective center, but the device gets shaky because Richard is a facile, silly liar, boasting about an imaginary family oil well. He will do anything to be accepted by these sophisticates. Anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Murder Midst The Ferns | 8/31/1992 | See Source »

...electoral experience but rich in patriotic fervor -- to try to bankroll his way into the White House as a high- minded alternative to an unpopular President and the usual band of two- faced out-of-power politicians. In the Frank Capra classic, Tracy falls under the thumb of a cabal of back-room bosses before reclaiming his virtue in a dramatic radio address, in which he confesses, "I sold out my ideals to a gang of corrupt politicians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Perot's Army | 4/20/1992 | See Source »

...staff also charges that CCH is some sort of conservative cabal, directed by Peninsula and AALARM. But it's not the same as Peninsula or AALARM; some Council members of Peninsula don't feel compelled to call Gomes to the carpet...

Author: By Liam T. A. ford, | Title: Consider CCH On Merits | 4/17/1992 | See Source »

...what about this "Crimson group" business? This phrase is used repeatedly to refer to The Crimson, its reporters and its editors. It seems to suggest a sort of conspiracy, a cabal--some "group" that has taken over The Crimson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Inaccurate and Offensive | 4/15/1992 | See Source »

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