Word: generality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Avril, adjutant general of the army, said in an early morning address on national television that the Presidential Guard toppled Namphy on Saturday because it was "sickened" by the way Namphy governed. Namphy was exiled to the neighboring Dominican Republic...
...said they were believed to be "dissatisfied with recent human rights violations and the general deterioration in the security situation punctuated by attacks against the churches over the past two weeks...
...speech to members of the Presidential Guard at the palace, Avril declared himself president and promoted himself to lieutenant general...
...addition, IOP Director and former Pennsylvania Gov. Richard L. Thornburgh left his Harvard post this summer to replace Edwin Meese III as U.S. attorney general. Onlookers have speculated that Thornburgh accepted the Reagan appointment--which would expire in January--with the hopes that, if Bush were elected in November, he would stay on. Should Dukakis win, however, Thornburgh would have to vacate the post, perhaps returning...
When the time comes to get back into politics, however, selling access can have its downside, as two top Bush campaign consultants, Stuart Spencer and Charles Black, are finding out. Each had what seemed to be a perfect client: the government of General Manuel Noriega of Panama (Spencer) and that of Prime Minister Lynden Pindling of the Bahamas (Black). Both politicians headed regimes that had full treasuries and lots of messy problems. But these drug- tainted leaders are proving to be unsavory associates for aides to a presidential candidate who favors the death penalty for drug dealers...