Word: loyalities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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PANAMA CITY, Panama--Troops loyal to Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega recaptured the headquarters of the Panamanian Defense Forces yesterday and declared that they had crushed an attempted coup...
Rebellious troopers seized the head-quarters compound in the morning but apparently failed to capture Noriega, and forces loyal to Noriega counterattacked. After a six-hour gun battle, the government claimed victory...
Mobuto is a staunch ally of the United States. Much like Marcos in the Philipines, Noriega in Panama, Pinochet in Chile and the leaders of many other banana republics, Mobuta has been an S.O.B., but he's been our S.O.B. Loyal to a fault, he has kept communism from becoming a force in Black Africa's second largest country...
Three hundred miles south of Beijing, the view from Zouping County is different. Not all Zouping's citizens are true believers, but they appear to revere the army and seemingly remain loyal to the government. Zouping has come far in the Deng era -- it even has a local beer, Hupo, that someday may rival the popularity of Tsingtao in the U.S. (The word on the street has Tsingtao's springwater supply running out in the early 1990s...
Perhaps these feverish pennant races are baseball's way of recompensing its loyal fans for the disgrace of Pete Rose and the specter of a strike next spring. But for the moment, the game is glittering like the Wrigley Field diamond in sunlight, as the schedule decrees that the season ends with the Cubs playing the Cardinals, the Giants taking on the Padres and the Orioles trying to knock the Blue Jays off their perch. It is enough to make even skeptics worship at the Church of Baseball...