Word: loyalities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...near Cordoba, some 400 miles north of Buenos Aires, and at the Campo de Mayo army base just outside the capital. Their chief demand: amnesty from prosecution for human rights violations. Alfonsin personally intervened to end < the three-day rebellion at Campo de Mayo. With more than 1,000 loyal government soldiers approaching the base on Sunday, he helicoptered from the presidential palace for a face-to-face talk with Lieut. Colonel Aldo Rico, who led the uprising...
Such open splits are still rare, but the new Afrikaner discontent is having its effect even on politicians loyal to Botha. Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha (no relation to the President) told an election rally this month that some of the social restrictions of apartheid are absurd. "I cannot understand," he said, "how you can stand in a lift with a black man with a toolbox in his hand, but when he puts on a suit you want nothing to do with...
...April Fool's Day surprise that still makes David Zrike fly into a rage. Like more than 15 million other Americans, Zrike, a 27-year-old partner in a New York City importing business, belongs to a frequent-flyer program that gives bonus trips to loyal airline passengers who accumulate sufficient travel miles. For two years Zrike faithfully flew on Trans World Airlines to reach the 60,000-mile mark needed for two free coach tickets to any TWA destination in the world. Then, on April 1, the airline revised its program. Now 60,000 bonus miles will earn...
...Tattersall, curator of New York's Museum of Natural History and a longtime friend, knew a different person. "I found him to be a warm, loyal, and kind person, always very supportive and solicitous...
Alfonsin recognized that permitting loyal opposition would safeguard his government more effectively than repression. It is a lesson too often lost on Alfonsin's counterparts in other Third World nations, such as Chilean President Pinochet. The United States, for its part, should realize that support for rightist strongmen who do not tolerate peaceful opposition seldom invites accomplishments as stirring as that of the Argentinian president...