Word: loyal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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NEWS REPORTS FROM Cambodia last week indicate that the Lon Nol regime, after five years of military attempts to assert its rule, is on the verge of collapse. Hundreds of thousands of refugees face the prospect of starvation in the coming weeks; troops still loyal to Lon Nol are disorganized and demoralized. The regime now rests on a single pillar; the daily American airlift of rice and ammunition into Phnom Penh. American experts and policy-makers are unanimous in their opinion that Phnom Penh would fall almost immediately to the Khmer Rouge without the airlift...
Moynihan says the world majority is now composed of nations that share a Socialist but not a Communist ideology, and a vested interest in blaming the West for their shortcomings and failures. The U.S. should therefore act as "the new [world] society's loyal opposition" and go on the offensive in three areas: 1) "forcefully" broadcast the achievements of Western liberalism such as the multinational corporation-"arguably the most creative international institution of the 20th century"; 2) assert that "inequalities in the world may be not so much a matter of condition as of performance," citing Brazil, Nigeria, Singapore...
...member of the secret police, no-nonsense manager of a key Soviet electrical-equipment factory and mayor of Moscow. Although he had no battlefield command experience, Bulganin became a general during World War II. Actually, he was a political commissar, charged with the task of keeping Red Army officers loyal to the Kremlin's leaders. In 1947 Stalin promoted Bulganin to Marshal of the Soviet Union and also named him Deputy Premier-a post he held until the dictator's death in March 1953, when he assumed the powerful position of Minister of Defense...
...propitious moment selected by court astrologers more than a year earlier, the royal priest placed the mammoth jewel-encrusted crown on the King's head and a diamond tiara atop Queen Aishwarya's beehive hairdo. Then came salutes from the King's loyal subjects, starting with three-year-old Prince Deependra decked out in a miniature military uniform. For the afternoon parade-music was provided by regimental bands, including one of Nepalese bagpipers-the royal couple rode on the King's tusker elephant, Prem Prasad, while the other 22 elephants carried many of the distinguished guests...
...Wicker went to Attica as a writer who had asked a few searching questions about his society, but who essentially was loyal to and protective of that society. He came away from Attica's tragedy shaken, stirred, and aware personally for the first time of the depth of racism that lay in his Southern upbringing, of the inhumanity of prisons, of America's reliance on violence as the ultimate recourse, of the power of guns to dictate men's actions...