Word: loyalists
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Unlike Premiers or Presidents, new Popes put their top aides in place only gradually, as jobs open up. John Paul II's first major appointment, two years ago, was Papal Loyalist Agostino Cardinal Casaroli as Secretary of State. Other changes slowly followed, including the selection last September of U.S. Archbishop Paul Marcinkus as chief administrator of Vatican City. Now, at the start of John Paul's fourth year, his lineup is virtually complete. The Pope has just named West Germany's Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, 54, to be his doctrinal watchdog as Prefect of the Congregation...
Some Unionists feared that Paisley's stridently anti-British stand might provoke a break with London. To preserve harmony in the Protestant cause-a doubtful prospect-Loyalist parties sent representatives to a hastily convened summit in Londonderry. But officials in both Belfast and London suspected that Paisley had other things than Protestant unity in mind. Said one Cabinet minister: "Ian Paisley sees himself as the first President of an independent Ulster...
...nepotism is a lively tradition: Mayor Jane Byrne's husband and daughter both work for her. But no one takes kinship more seriously than Chicago City Alderman Fred Roti. He admitted last week that 16 members of his family are on the municipal payroll. Roti, 60, a Byrne loyalist, says it is all relative: "So, I have some relatives on the payroll. They're doing an excellent job. What's the beef...
...fired. "Every Prime Minister has to reshuffle from time to time," he said in his resignation broadside. "It does no harm to throw the occasional man overboard, but it does not do much good if you are steering full speed ahead for the rocks." Humphrey Atkins, a Thatcher loyalist who has been unable to ease tension in Ulster as Northern Ireland Secretary, was elevated to fill Gilmour's post, while Sir Keith Joseph, the ineffectual Minister of Industry, was moved over to Education...
While the renewed terror has muted Doe's critics, it has understandably done little to reassure foreign investors or Liberian businessmen of stability any time soon. One reminder is the conduct of Colonel Harrison Pennue, a former corporal and Doe loyalist who likes to boast that he disemboweled President Tolbert. Doe appointed Pennue to a P.R.C. committee charged with collecting $36 million owed by private debtors to the defunct Bank of Liberia. So far, says a foreign businessman, "not one cent" of the millions of dollars in cash that Pennue collected has been turned over to the central bank...