Word: henchmen
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...crusading opposition newspaper, La Prensa. Under Somoza, La Prensa (circ. 75,000) had paid a steep price for its dissenting views: its reporters were beaten and jailed, its offices were bombed, and finally its unflinching editor, Pedro Joaquín Chamorro, was murdered by Somoza's henchmen. When the Sandinistas came to power 18 months later, they promised to create a pluralistic society in which freedom of the press would guaranteed. Now, it seems, the Sandinistas are finding those promises too troublesome to keep...
...that Hitler, a fanatic about the occult, has a team of storm troopers led by the opportunistic French archeologist Belloq, searching for the Ark. To counteract this threat, the government employs Indiana Jones, an improbably handsome archeology teacher and part-time adventurer to find the Ark before Hitler's henchmen do. After that, it's all pretty much irrelevant as far as plot goes. Suffice it to say Jones travels halfway around the world, through Nepal, Egyptian bazzars, through Cairo and the Mediterranean, flung headfirst into an impossible maze of threats, subterfuge and adventure...
...toward the American captives about last August. By then, the hard-line Iranian clergy had consolidated their position in the new government and the American economic sanctions were beginning to hurt. And although the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini had said that he was unwilling to negotiate with Carter or his "henchmen," the Iranians began to look for contacts with Washington...
...largest defense contractor (with more than $2 billion in sales last year), is not controlled by Summa. Since 1953 it has been the property of the Miami-based Howard Hughes Medical Institute, a nonprofit foundation that is dominated by Lummis' old antagonists Davis and Gay. Hughes' former henchmen have filed suit against Lummis, claiming that Hughes intended all his holdings, including Summa, to go to the Medical Institute. Lummis has countersued, challenging their control of the Medical Institute. But while that battle continues through the courts, at least part of Hughes' flamboyant empire has been turned into...
...long, organized crime figures and their political henchmen have operated as if the criminal justice system were meant to serve them and not the public. Stings are understandably a vital part of the crackdown. But that is all the more reason for the FBI to proceed with utmost caution and with deepest regard for due process. Only by so doing will its cases hold up in court-and in the court of public opinion...