Word: loyalities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ousted President of the Philippines and his supporters sought to seize the offensive by both word and deed. From his exile in Hawaii, Marcos in an interview with TIME boldly charged a direct American role in a "conspiracy for a coup d'etat" that he claimed was quashed by loyal forces before he fled the Philippines on Feb. 26. In interviews with a Manila radio station, the former dictator also reversed his calls of just a week earlier to support President Corazon Aquino and exhorted followers to agitate against the new government. Coming after three days of mounting antigovernment activity...
...struggled in Hawaii to set their version of the record straight, loyalist forces took to the streets in the Philippines, chanting, "Marcos! Marcos still!" According to intelligence reports, a series of recent demonstrations, including a large rally early last week at Manila's Rizal Park, were bankrolled by officers loyal to Marcos who offered Filipinos from $5 to $10 to attend. The following day, 93 of the 177 elected members of the 200-seat National Assembly abolished by Aquino held a session in which they declared that they were reopening the defunct parliament. Marcos' vice- presidential running mate, Arturo Tolentino...
...described in the latest edition of a leading college guide as "now clearly on its way back up." A prime source of the uplift has been money, in record amounts. A fund drive that started three years ago has topped $106 million, most of it from DePauw's uncommonly loyal alumni...
Meanwhile, back in Ghana, Blay-Miezah is in detention as government authorities investigate the sting. A loyal investor, New Jersey Businessman Walter Hajduk, says he visited Blay-Miezah in a government compound, where the Ghanaian urged him to tell officials that, if set free for seven days, he could travel to Europe and prove that the trust exists. If he failed, Blay- + Miezah told the investor, the authorities could shoot him. Hajduk would like the Ghanaians to take Blay-Miezah up on his offer. Should Blay-Miezah prove to be a liar, says Hajduk, "I'll put the bullets...
...total strangers. The poet proved himself up to such demands. "I am the most unreliable friend that ever was," he confessed in a letter in 1934, and he was not kidding. He agreed to be best man at the wedding of Poet Vernon Watkins, his closest and most loyal confidant, and then failed to show up for the ceremony. To his credit, Thomas usually knew when he had behaved unconscionably. "I owe you so many apologies I don't know where to begin," he opened one missive in 1950, and variations on this formula abound in his letters. He disarmed...