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...long-run loser, though, may well be Mayor Bafia. Sensing the ugly mood of the mountain men, he transferred his teen-age daughter from the local school to one in far-off Warsaw. When he ventures out of his office nowadays, a bodyguard is always at his side...
...Somoza regime began pondering reconstruction. Money posed no great problem; the Nixon Administration, which is anxious to burnish Washington's tarnished image in Latin America, would almost certainly be eager to help bankroll the building of a new capital. But where? Managua was now a three-time loser, it was true, but Leon, the country's second city (pop. 50,000), also lies in an earthquake zone...
...free" (in the Western states, India and Japan, among others), while another 720,630,000 are "partly free" (among them: the South Vietnamese). But fully 1,583,551,000 people-nearly one-half the world's population-"suffer severe political and civil deprivations." The year's big loser was Africa, which showed "an almost irreversible trend toward more military and one-party states...
...never believed it until now." A standing political favorite is dichaeologia ("in defense of one's blemished reputation or failings, to place blame on extenuating circumstances, bad information furnished by sly enemies, betrayal by subordinates or former friends"). Champion in this category is the well-known loser of the 1962 California gubernatorial race: "You won't have Nixon to kick around any more." Another master rhetorician, Spiro Agnew, has achieved signal results through oxymoron ("a figure designed to convey a truth by linking terms or phrases that are contradictory"). Example: "Protest is every citizen's right...
...budget. But other countries maintain that the U.S. is in a special position, since it takes in about $135 million through the U.N. staff's presence in New York. Whatever the merits of the case, the U.S. has by now become the certain loser in terms of international esteem...