Word: loyalities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Tommy Griscom, 38, Baker's loyal aide, came in for his share. "Tommy, did somebody press the down button on your elevator shoes?" He was another Tennessee boy who could roll with it, even at 5 ft. 6 in., and with quick wit he traveled through the Washington jungle unscathed. "You know," whispered a former White House staffer last week, "we sometimes joked that Tommy was the most powerful man in the country. He had a President who was disengaged. Baker was not an administrator. Tommy paid attention to the details...
...schism between Roman Catholicism and the Eastern Orthodox, the bulk of whom live in Communist countries. For years the Vatican has been quietly working with world Orthodoxy, including the Russians, to settle various long-standing obstacles to reconciliation. One of the nastiest is the existence of pockets of Catholics loyal to Rome within countries in which the Orthodox predominate. The newest round of discussions on these Eastern Rite Catholics will be held next week at the New Valamo monastery in Finland...
...Federal Home Loan Bank Board, which regulates savings and loans, tries to avoid cash bailouts, preferring to merge insolvent institutions with healthier ones. But the two California thrifts were poor prospects for such a rescue because they lacked loyal, small depositors. Instead, the two institutions attracted funds from money managers who demand higher-than- average interest rates...
...million in American aid. Although Noriega was to ditch new President Manuel Solis Palma after the formation of a "national reconciliation" government, another henchman, Colonel Marcos Justines, would continue to head the PDF. Most important, the drug charges would be dropped -- a proposition that drove even the relentlessly loyal Bush to his first public break with a Reagan policy. In the end, Noriega rejected the entire deal, and the U.S. was left to issue vague threats of future action. The general, says anti-Noriega Juan Sosa, Panama's Ambassador to Washington, "was never serious about negotiating...
...said down in Virginia, "to fight it out on this line, if it takes all summer." On that he is backed up so far by the President, who is being placed yet again in the awkward position of choosing between what is best for his presidency and protecting a loyal spear carrier...