Word: ironfistedness
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A chorus of 200,000 serenaded Pope John Paul II, who had just turned 68, with a thundering Happy Birthday last week in the Paraguayan town of Encarnacion. During a later appearance, the impassioned chant "Freedom, freedom, freedom!" greeted the Pontiff. The cry was really meant for Paraguay's ironfisted...
In the end, the key to the release seemed to be a most unlikely liberator, Syria's Assad. Though he is an ironfisted dictator and a Soviet ally, Assad has carefully nurtured a reputation as a man who can be relied on to deliver on any deal to which he...
DIED. William Anthony (Tony) Boyle, 83, ironfisted labor leader and convicted murderer whose nine-year reign over the United Mine Workers of America was marked by graft and violence; of a heart attack; in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Boyle died in a hospital near the state prison where he was serving...
A scant ten months after taking office as the nation's highest-ranking Hispanic and its only Hispanic Governor, Anaya, 42, has established himself as a colorful and controversial activist with national ambitions. In New Mexico, a state with a weak Governor system, he has already earned a reputation...
Last week, as Begin met in Alexandria with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, it was Sharon who spelled out the final schedule for the Israeli withdrawal from the Sinai desert next April. A fortnight earlier he had issued new guidelines for Israeli forces serving in the occupied territories. Henceforth, they should...