Word: loyalists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sounds of battle soon erupted again, this time mortar and grenade explosions and gunfire from forces loyal to Noriega. The firefight claimed the lives of ten rebels and wounded 18 loyalist troops and five civilians. By 2 that afternoon, Noriega's supporters were rounding up the last of the rebels. It was all over but the pompous pronouncements in Panama -- and the recriminations in Washington...
...rebels' claimed in a broadcast around noon that they had overthrown Noriega and retired top officers, but that communique was not repeated. Loyalist forces later said the general was at an undisclosed location controlling the operations against the insurgents...
...Mario Rognoni, suggested that possible intermediaries for such an undertaking might be Costa Rican President Oscar Arias Sanchez, a Mexican official or a papal envoy. But precisely what would be negotiated at such a session remained unclear. Noriega may plan eventually to schedule another presidential election and find another loyalist to serve as his stand-in. Endara and his allies, for their part, are adamant that any pact with Noriega must include his departure...
...sacked, allegedly as part of a drug and corruption crackdown. That move sparked a simmering revolt within the military. Under the leadership of Lieut. Colonel Himmler Rebu, members of the army's elite Leopards corps took President Lieut. General Prosper Avril and his family hostage in a coup attempt. Loyalist troops rescued Avril at the airport as the captors prepared to send him into exile. A second coup attempt was put down by the Presidential Palace guards, who killed eight rebel military soldiers. By week's end the real casualty looked to be Haiti's hope for democracy...
What he was taking on, without realizing it, was defense of the party during the worst days of Watergate. Bush was the ultimate loyalist, out around the country raising morale, defending the President, blaming everything on Democrats and the press. He assured all doubters that the President had told him there was no cover-up. I asked him if he felt betrayed when he found out that was not true: "I felt thoroughly disillusioned, to have been told that there was nothing to this, there were no more, you know, smoking guns or whatever these horrible things were...