Word: loyalist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...incredible thing about the Tigers is that they get such amazing crowds no matter how well they do," says laid-back loyalist Shira Saperstein '82 of Detroit. "Once a Tigers' fan, always a Tigers...
Maybe that's why Bary Gottesman '82 of Birmingham, Mich., has been a Tiger loyalist for as long as he can remember. "I stood by them while they were really pathetic," he said, referring to the gory years of the early 70s. But this year, maybe because they seemed so close, his patience is running thinner than a French milkshake...
Chief of Staff Ed Meese is an old Reagan loyalist with an easygoing, reassuring presence and skills as a coordinator...
Even as he lay dying, the cumbersome machinery of succession he had devised to provide an orderly transition of power went into effect. Koliševski, a Macedonian and longtime Tito loyalist, chaired Cabinet and other government meetings. Koliševski was acting as one of the first beneficiaries of the "collective leadership" plan incorporated into Yugoslavia's 1974 constitution. This plan established a state presidency of eight regional and presumably equal members, who are supposed to rotate as chairmen each year. Tito also set up a companion 24-member system for the party Presidium, the highest body...
...crowd of angry Liberians shouted insults and hurled rocks last week at the body of their assassinated President, William Tolbert, which had been dumped in a mass grave alongside 27 other victims of a predawn coup d'état the previous weekend. Pockets of loyalist resistance remained; there was at least one fight between opposing military factions. For the most part, however, the new government, led by a natty master sergeant named Samuel Doe, 28, appeared to be in firm control...