Word: confidantes
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In John's white-painted bedroom, keeping watch with his doctors over the coma-stricken body on the simple brass bed, were the Pope's brothers and sister from Bergamo, and Monsignor Loris Capovilla, his secretary and confidant. And as Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli clung to the edge of...
Two months before the election, Hassan also entered the race by having his closest confidant, Interior-Agriculture Minister Ahmed Reda Guedira, 40, organize a pro-Hassan party christened the Front for the Defense of Constitutional Institutions. Unsurprisingly, the F.D.C.I. enjoyed the use of government vehicles to haul wondering tribesmen to...
The footnote appended to your story concerning the death of Abd el Krim [Feb. 15] indicates that President Theodore Roosevelt was responsible for the famed ultimatum to Raisuli, the notorious Moroccan bandit who had captured and was holding for ransom Ion Perdicaris, a naturalized American, and his stepson, an Englishman...
Betancourt at Best. Even more than Bosch's grandiose plans, what gives his would-be friends pause is Bosch himself. A political exile since 1937, Bosch made a name for himself as a writer, and became a political confidant of Venezuela's Ró-mulo Betancourt and Puerto...
Since Istiqlal was the party largely responsible for organizing Hassan's successful referendum, there were those who thought Hassan was a bit ungrateful. But Istiqlal leaders were pressing for close economic and diplomatic ties with Cairo, based on a common Islamic heritage, and demanding that Hassan pursue Morocco'...