Word: loyal
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...superior in the military structure is Senior General Van Tien Dung, 57, chief of staff of the North Viet Nam People's Army since 1953. A loyal Giap disciple and master logician, Dung is the youngest member of the Politburo of the ruling Lao Dong (Workers) Party. He was born to a peasant family in Ha Dong province in the North, joined the Communist Party in the 1930s and spent about five years in a French prison before escaping to China in 1944. A year later he took command of Viet Minh forces in the Red River Delta...
...leader came from Khieu Samphan, commander of the rebel army and one of the insurgents' top political leaders. In a broadcast carried by Phnom-Penh radio, Samphan warned that the country was "still facing a big menace." He did not elaborate, but an earlier broadcast indicated that troops loyal to the former government were holding out in remote provinces...
Presumably among the most disturbed was Pat Moynihan, who, in a widely discussed article in the March issue of Commentary, urged the U.S. to take up, in the U.N. and elsewhere, the role of the loyal opposition to ideologically extreme Third World positions. "It is time we grew out of our initial-not a little condescending-supersen-sitivity about the feelings of new nations," wrote Moynihan, urging the U.S. to treat Third World nations "as equals" and to end its "extraordinarily passive, even compliant" policy toward them. Doubtless bearing that sharply worded article in mind, one Latin American diplomat...
...think we played the best two games back-to-back of the season." Crimson coach Loyal Park commented yesterday, despite the loss. "I was really very pleased with the way we played...
...strong right arm." Though his title was associate director (he was responsible for administration and investigation activities), Tolson handled a pistol convincingly in many of the spectacular arrests that built the FBI's G-man image in the 1930s. But mainly he was the director's loyal alter ego: he shared J. Edgar's bulletproof Cadillac, his meals, his afternoons at the race tracks, and inherited the bulk of his $551,500 estate when Hoover died...