Word: loyalist
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Manatt was kept on, but with a watchful Mondale loyalist, Michael Berman, installed as director-and de facto ruler-of the D.N.C., and Lance was given overall charge of the Mondale campaign. It had been a damaging blunder: not only had Mondale saddled himself with an unseemly link to the Carter Administration; he had seemed weak and vacillating in handling the uproar. Said Campaign Chairman James Johnson: "We did it in a clumsy way, and we wish we hadn...
...riots against the Chief Minister, and in the ensuing violence nine people were killed and hundreds injured. In March Mrs. Gandhi asked the state governor to impose a form of direct rule that would bypass Abdullah and his government. When the governor refused, he was replaced by a Gandhi loyalist. Congress (I) Party politicians then secretly promised state government cabinet posts to twelve National Conference Party assemblymen, led by Abdullah's brother-in-law, in exchange for their agreement to abandon the Chief Minister and thus deprive him of a majority in the assembly. Kashmir...
...electoral hour: a first-place finish, ahead of the rival Christian Democrats in the voting for the European Parliament. Last week, as the party elders met to elect Berlinguer's successor as Secretary-General, they apparently saw wisdom in continuity: they chose Alessandro Natta, 66, a longtime Berlinguer loyalist...
...always had warm feelings for him, reaching back to the Nixon Administration. He was, in the best sense of the word, a loyalist, a man who seemed instinctively to put country above party and party above self. When President Nixon asked for his support, he gave it, sometimes at considerable political cost to himself as Governor of California, but always ungrudgingly...
Scarcely 48 hours earlier, Arafat and about 4,000 of his loyalist forces had been evacuated from the northern Lebanese port city of Tripoli, where they had been besieged by Syrian-backed P.L.O. rebels and shelled by Israeli naval guns. The ever flexible Arafat quickly looked for new support-and appeared to find it in Cairo. As he arrived by helicopter from Ismailia on the Suez Canal, the P.L.O. chairman received a warm embrace from Mubarak. Later, after a conversation that lasted almost two hours, Mubarak hailed his guest as a "moderate leader of the Palestinian people." Arafat...