Word: loyal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Until last week, no one had been certain that Strongman Balaguer and his loyal generals would actually leave. In May, when it became clear that Balaguer's right-wing Reformist Party was losing the election badly, the generals had ordered a halt to the vote counting. Immediately there was heavy pressure, both from within the country and from Washington. Jimmy Carter sent word that if Balaguer attempted a coup d'état, the U.S. would order sanctions against the illegal regime. Balaguer's supporters resented the interference, but they got the message...
Kennedy has been an outstanding Senator, say 84% of the Democrats and 75% of all voters; he is also a loyal party man, say 87% of the Democrats and 83% of all voters. Only 29% of the Democrats and 38% of all voters characterize him as "too liberal." But 35% feel that his relationship with his wife raises questions about his fitness for the presidency, and 60% fear that if he were elected he would be assassinated...
...persecution of its dissidents, he was openly reprimanded by Carter. Similarly, in the wake of the Bourne episode, the President sternly lectured his staff that they would be fired if they broke the law by smoking marijuana or sniffing cocaine. Rafshoon has told Carter, who tends to be extremely loyal to his staff, that it is unwise to keep aides who are not performing well...
Instead of paying bureaucrats, Soilih sacked them and loaded the civil service with illiterate teenagers. Then he outraged the large Muslim population by ordering women to stop wearing veils and by banning traditional wedding feasts. Last January he directed his loyal youth brigade to kill every dog in the islands. They scoured villages, tied the captive canines to the back of a Land-Rover and dragged them to death through the streets. Many Comorans speculated that Soilih had flipped out and gone psychodogmatic after a fortuneteller warned that he would be overthrown by a man with a mutt...
Sebastiano Cardinal Baggio, 65. Inducted into the Vatican diplomatic corps as a 23-year-old priest, Baggio (pronounced Bah-jee-o) has moved steadily upward in a flawlessly loyal career. As signed first to Vienna, he soon became a Latin American virtuoso, serving in six countries and learning, as he went, superb Spanish, Portuguese, English and half a dozen local dialects. The pastoral job Pope Paul found for him in 1969 would have discouraged a lesser man: the Archbishopric of Cagliari in Sardinia. Baggio gamely traveled the island in a simple black cassock, exhorting fraternal love in place...