Word: loyalism
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...myself, I'm out of here. I'm off to intern for Golf Digest magazine next semester, and I don't know if or when I'll be back writing for THC. Hope somehow our loyal readers can find a way is cope with that fact (ha!)--to all of those whom I covered and/or wrote to in the past two-and-a-half years, especially those involved with the men's hockey program, it's been real. Take care of yourselves...
...Defense Minister Grachev of being a weak, incompetent minister with the mentality of a commander of a troop division rather than of a minister charged with his country's security, who has proved himself skilled only in political intrigues. They fault him for surrounding himself with an entourage of loyal but dull military hacks, for not fighting hard enough to defend the military budget, and for covering up corruption...
...cutting out committees entirely or reducing them in size, Gingrich eliminates some of the opportunity for PAC money to flow to lawmakers from the | industries they oversee -- money that can make lawmakers loyal to outside masters. If fewer Republicans are getting PAC money from agribusiness, for example, the Speaker may have less trouble commanding party loyalty in any vote to cut, say, farm subsidies. To achieve a similar end, some of the most powerful committees have had their authority reduced. Still, Gingrich didn't pare back all of the sprawl. Ways and Means, for instance, is a magnet for campaign...
...Chechnya's independence bid as an internal security problem and suspect that the use of military force was pushed by the Federal Counterintelligence Service, successor to the KGB. Other senior officers are contemptuous of Grachev, whom they consider a jumped-up parachutist elevated to Defense Minister because he is loyal to Yeltsin, not because he is good...
During the 1974 Watergate hearings, then-Chief of Staff Alexander Haig blamed a famous, 18 1/2-minute gap in President Nixon's tapes on "sinister forces." But a newly-released memo shows that the White House tried to blame Rosemary Woods, Nixon's loyal personal secretary, who had claimed to have erased just a small part of the tape accidentally. The memo, written by Woods' attorney and made public today by the National Archives as part of a cache of more than 35,000 Woods documents, states that White House lawyers Leonard Garment and Fred Buzhardt told U.S. Judge John Sirica...