Word: loyal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Furthermore, a devastating disillusion cost Nixon whole brigades of his most loyal supporters four years ago, after the tapes revealed that he had lied in his frantic exertions at self-defense and survival. One aide told him bitterly, according to Theodore H. White, "Those who served you best hate you most." Yet there remains in the U.S. a vague, perhaps unmeasurable feeling that, after all, Watergate was not all that bad, that its catastrophic results were out of all proportion to the wrongs that were done. It is conceivable, goes the reasoning, that he was only defending friends...
...renewed fighting was touched off by a bitter feud involving the country's three major Christian factions: Pierre Gemayel's Phalangists, Camille Chamoun's National Liberals, and forces loyal to former President Suleiman Franjieh, a close ally of Syrian President Hafez Assad. The dispute centers on the fact that Gemayel and Chamoun would like to create a separate Christian state in northern Lebanon, while Franjieh supports a unified nation. Franjieh also believes the country's sovereignty is best guaranteed by the presence of the Syrian army...
...areas controlled by the Palestinians and Muslim left, Gemayel and Chamoun have seized the opportunity to build up their own military forces. During the past three months, Gemayel's 15,000-man army, which is led by Israeli-trained officers, has tried to extend its influence over areas loyal to the other Christian chieftains. In several incidents, the Phalangists fired on Syrian soldiers, who initially retreated rather than get involved in pitched battles. Boasting about their "victories over the Syrian occupation," the Phalangists last month attacked the resort village of Ehden, killing Franjieh's son Tony, his wife...
Scarcely were relations with the North broken when South Yemenite "People's Militia" and troops loyal to Ismail attacked the presidential palace in Aden and overwhelmed Robaye Ali's army guard. Ismail was left in control after the hapless President was shot by a firing squad...
Alex Nahigian, head baseball coach at Providence College since 1960, has been named head baseball coach at Harvard, John P. Reardon Jr. '60, director of athletics, announced yesterday. Nahigian succeeds Loyal Park, who resigned this spring after ten seasons with the Crimson...