Word: loyalist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...about the many Chinese Catholics who, like Bishop Tang, suffered intense persecution for decades because they remained loyal to the papacy and spurned the patriotic bishops. It is possible that most Chinese Catholics will continue to refuse to recognize the government-imposed religious hierarchy. Says one such Vatican loyalist in Shanghai: "Many of us grew up together and shared the sufferings of being Catholic. There isn't a single one who will go to a patriotic church...
...Nofziger, longtime Ronald Reagan loyalist and true-blue guardian of Reaganism, put the matter to his boss bluntly. Those who had toiled in the fields, the True Believers who had dreamed for more than a decade of a Reagan presidency, were being left out in. the cold. The Cabinet was dominated by pragmatists and retreads from past Republican Administrations, rather than the ideologically pure. The sub-Cabinet was showing dangerous signs of following suit. Something had to be done quickly, he warned, to mollify Reagan's hard-core following of right-wing ideologues...
...over both the Cabinet and the army (see box). That double duty made the Soviet-trained World War II veteran the second most powerful man in the government after Party Boss Stanislaw Kania. Jaruzelski, who has a reputation as a tough military professional as well as a staunch party loyalist, wasted no time in taking command. His predecessor had hardly cleaned out his desk when the general sacked two Deputy Premiers and five of 40 Cabinet ministers, many of whom were holdovers from the regime of deposed Party Boss Edward Gierek...
...Cabinet reshuffle drew differing analyses from Western observers. Foreign policy experts in Bonn see Jaruzelski as an orthodox party loyalist whose rise presages direct action by the Polish armed forces if the labor situation deteriorates further. U.S. State Department analysts, pointing to Jaruzelski's past reluctance to use force against strikers, predict that he will support Kania's relatively moderate policy toward the unions. If that happens, Kania will have gained a valuable counterweight in his struggle against extreme hard-liners like Politburo Member Stefan Olszowski who have been arguing for an immediate crackdown. Finally, Jaruzelski is trusted...
Jaruzelski has won a reputation as both a fervent Polish patriot and an unshakable party loyalist. In introducing him to parliament last week, Party Boss Stanislaw Kania said: "Now as black clouds hang over Poland, he is the best man to whom the helm could be offered." Perhaps. But those clouds will sorely test his capacity for reconciling the conflicts between his nation and his ideology...