Word: loyal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...least-known and most loyal of Russia's Eastern European satellites is little Bulgaria (pop. 8.5 million). TIME Correspondent Strobe Talbott recently visited some of the country's major urban, industrial and agricultural centers and sent this report...
About 80% of the village's Christians are Eastern Rite (Melchite) Catholics who owe allegiance to Rome; the remaining 20% are Greek Orthodox and are loyal to the Ecumenical Patriarch in Istanbul. There are also about 80 Moslems in the village, all members of the Diab family. For years the Diabs sought to build a mosque. But every time they began construction, the Christians would destroy by night what the Diabs had built by day. The Diabs finally got official protection to build their mosque in 1958. "They put it right beside the police station," reports one young resident...
...plot turns on an invasion from the troubled north by strange blacks equipped with European weapons and a shabby Asian brand of revolution. Francois, a loyal Bushman friend and the pretty 13-year-old daughter of a neighboring rancher escape the massacre by taking refuge in a cave, which Francois has stocked with provisions. There is a strong note of never-never to the story, and while the time apparently is the late 1950s, the impression persists that the author really is saying farewell to his own childhood in Africa decades before...
...rumors rumbling down the mountainside turned into a sudden avalanche of appointments for Nixon's second term. All were in keeping with the President's notion that the best way to run an overgrown bureaucracy is to staff it with his own men-proven, competent, completely loyal. The careers of the four key appointees are described on following pages...
...razormind under clicked down hair the Motor City intellectual who had a just for numbers and a remarkable ability to convince other people of things he did not believe himself There was Dean Rush the Georgia boy who became a Rhodes scholar an anticommunist fundamentalist a skipper who saved loyal even after the shop had sunk And who could forget Maxwell Taylor the golden general the general who wrote books." Of Walt M. Rostow the mad bomber from MIT. It was quite a cast. It was quite a show...