Word: loyalist
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...proposed measures are considerably more subtle than the kind of blunt protectionist strictures that have been championed with increasing vigor on Capitol Hill. In past years the White House was able to rely on the Republican-dominated Senate to help keep such sentiments under control. Last August those loyalist forces helped Reagan sustain, although narrowly, a presidential veto of a protectionist trade bill that had passed both the House and the Senate. That bill took a piecemeal approach, among other things setting a new system of country-by-country quotas on imports of textiles, shoes and copper from such places...
...arms- control agreement -- one that is fair and maybe even verifiable," says a close White House aide. "He doesn't want to lose the opportunity." Still, Reagan retains a deep distrust of Soviet motives and a conviction that the U.S. must stay strong and alert. The President, says one loyalist, "is carrying these two conflicting concepts in his mind. It's a two-judge court," and either judge could rule at any given time...
...Beaumarchais's 18th century farce The Marriage of Figaro thrust into a postrevolutionary modern world. Count Almaviva is a tyrant on the run, his wife a conniving businesswoman, the valet Figaro a nationalist longing to return to his newly free homeland, and his lady's-maid wife Susanna a loyalist clinging to the old social order...
Until the kidnaping, Aquino had ignored the Muslim separatist problem in Mindanao. Pushed into action, she ordered the army to "settle once and for all Lanao's problem of warlordism." The warlord that Aquino apparently had in mind was Ali Dimaporo, a Marcos loyalist who was dismissed as Governor of Lanao del Sur after Aquino took power and who, according to intelligence reports, commanded the loyalties of the kidnapers. Dimaporo denied his involvement...
...Marcoses struggled in Hawaii to set their version of the record straight, loyalist forces took to the streets in the Philippines, chanting, "Marcos! Marcos still!" According to intelligence reports, a series of recent demonstrations, including a large rally early last week at Manila's Rizal Park, were bankrolled by officers loyal to Marcos who offered Filipinos from $5 to $10 to attend. The following day, 93 of the 177 elected members of the 200-seat National Assembly abolished by Aquino held a session in which they declared that they were reopening the defunct parliament. Marcos' vice- presidential running mate, Arturo...