Word: hards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bill Miller in the elegant third-floor corner office of the Treasury Building will lead to some changes in style. He is the kind of "team player" that Carter seems to prize. From his days as chairman of the Textron Corp., Miller has had a reputation for arguing hard and voicing stinging criticism behind closed doors; out in public, however, he joins ranks and forcefully presents the majority position. But Miller can also be stubborn. Blumenthal discovered this last spring when he tried to lean hard on his old friend Bill to have the Fed raise interest rates. Concluding that...
House report on assassinations is short on hard evidence...
...regime should represent all shades of Nicaraguan political opinion. Among its members are Corporate Lawyer Joachin Cuadra Chamorro, Carlos Tünnermann Bernheim, who was rector of the National University, and Cesar Amador Khull, a former officer of the Inter-American Development Bank. There are only two hard-core radicals: a Sandinista commander, Tomás Borge Martinez, who was appointed Interior Minister, and the Rev. Ernesto Cardenál Martinez, a radical priest who was named Minister of Culture...
...would be hard to imagine a more vivid contrast to strutting President Tacho Somoza than the cool, unflappable man who has taken his place as the dominant figure in Nicaragua's government. Sergio Ramírez Mercado, 36, is a baby-faced intellectual who attracts little attention until he begins to speak, in a soft, nasal voice. But his quiet charisma has enabled the tall (6 ft. 2 in.) writer to win the confidence of all the factions represented on the five-member ruling junta and its 15-member Cabinet, though the ideologies range from the doctrinaire Marxism...
...King is considered above politics. The task of governing his peculiar land of serenity and violence, of beauty and disorder, is in the hands of Premier Kriangsak Chomanan, 61. A retired army general who came to power in a 1977 army coup, Kriangsak has found it hard to manage a largely agricultural economy that is plagued by bureaucratic inefficiency and corruption. He has also had to give a great deal of his attention to the threat posed by war at Thailand's doorstep, and the persistence of Communist insurgency, especially in the south...