Word: keeps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...burly young bouncer to keep...
...Bogart, we ask that St. Pete keep in mind...
...President may not know what to do with the military. For the past four years, Aquino has depended on the loyalty of Defense Secretary Fidel Ramos to keep the armed forces in line. But Ramos' response to every rebellion has been to patch up relations between the various military factions and restore the uneasy status quo between reformist officers and old-line, self-interested generals. Aquino can no longer afford that kind of detente. Moreover, it has not worked. If she cannot impose civilian authority on the armed forces, then her government may be sidelined into irrelevancy as rival military...
Washington expects more requests for help from the Aquino regime and is determined to do all it can to keep her in power. The Aquino rescue is certain to complicate the negotiations over the two large U.S. installations at Subic Bay and Clark. Aquino, who was thought to favor the bases, may have to remove herself entirely from deliberating the issue. Says a White House official: "The chances of a satisfactory resolution were no more than 50-50 a couple of months ago, and they're less...
...naive enough to believe that all the problems will be solved. But I told him that I thought the meeting made good sense. I told him that I never had favored this kind of meeting before but that I had changed my mind. I am going to keep the personal part of this going. I'll find ways to contact him in a quiet fashion. I can write. I can call now. I'm not going to become a pen pal, but we can communicate...