Word: lackeys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Other Africans besides Amin are also beholden to Gaddafi. Libya is arming and training Moslem separatists in neighboring Chad and sending weapons to Eritrean rebels fighting Haile Selassie ("a lackey of Israel"). It has supplied guns to Guinea and money to Upper Volta, Mauritania and Niger. Libya also provides yearly subsidies of $125 million to Egypt and $45 million to Syria, with which it is joined in a new Federation of Arab Republics, and is a principal financial angel of the Palestinian guerrilla movement. More than 300 Libyan soldiers are serving with the fedayeen; five of them were killed...
...Sang (Morning News), which soon became the most controversial journal in Saigon. He traveled to Paris and called for the withdrawal of foreign troops and the establishment of a neutral provisional government in Viet Nam. Since then, he has had nothing but trouble. Duc was labeled a Communist lackey and denied an exit visa for other overseas trips. Tin Sang has twice been bombed, has had its presses drenched with gasoline and acid and set afire, and its editions have been confiscated 150 times; the latest two crackdowns came only last week. Beyond all that,Duc's house...
...need the aid of the U.S. and other friendly countries. Our resources will be exhausted. Then we will face our greatest problem, and I hope the Americans will help. But whatever aid comes in should not be directed by the Americans. If it is, we would appear as a lackey in the world's eyes." IF THIEU IS REELECTED. "We cannot rule out the possibility of a coup. After all, it happened to me once. Especially if the elections are not free and honest, we should expect trouble. If I were a Communist, I would help President Thieu...
...from the sacred reality of art cannot be prescribed: if sacred ones can be exploited, so much the better. . . I am simply leading up in all of this to the spectacle of Bo Widerberg, whose ultimately romantic style descends directly from the painting of Pierre Auguste Renoir, ruling-class lackey and who exists as a radical filmmaker, quite apart from Jean-Lue Godard...
...becomes a gout of smoke, the propeller detaches crazily, scudding across the earth. Men are flooded in holds, set afire, strafed as they run along unprotected fields. American bombers and P-40s are bunched together, ideal targets for bombardiers. And back in Washington, the Japanese ambassadors wait for a lackey to hunt and peck his way through an ultimatum that they deliver to the Secretary of State 55 minutes after the attack...