Word: loyalities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Coup fever spread last week to another West African country, Cameroon, as gun battles broke out in the capital city of Yaounde. The suspected instigators: Muslim members of the palace guard loyal to former President Ahmadou Ahidjo, a northern Muslim whom President Paul Biya, a southern Christian, replaced in 1982. Ahidjo, who had led Cameroon for 22 years before going into exile in France, was convicted in absentia last year of plotting to overthrow Biya. Last week's rebellion was apparently sparked by Biya's efforts to replace Muslim officers with Christians loyal to him. Though no details...
...face of such trifles as the Moscow trials, the Hitler-Stalin pact, the partial annexation of Finland and, later, the taking over of Eastern Europe and the reports of Gulag atrocities. It was not until 1956, and Khrushchev's denunciation of Stalin, that even the most loyal of party members began to wonder how something so good turned out so bad. By that time the Smith Act had made them criminals, and a few still huddled together in the camaraderie of victims...
...Majnoon oilfield. At week's end military officials in Baghdad claimed that Iraqi forces had also destroyed four oil tankers and commercial ships near Kharg Island, the major terminal for Iran's oil exports. Along the border near Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, troops loyal to the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini massed for yet another offensive. Iraq appeared to have lost a bit of its much vaunted technological edge with the news that one of the five Super Etendard fighter-bombers it had bought from France had been damaged in a training flight. But for the moment...
Such sincerity makes for nice fairy tales, but it fails to provide the characters with the necessary degree of depth they so desperately lack. It is precisely because Hopper is such a loyal patriot and sensitive lover that the film so frequently seems maudlin, and precisely because the preps wear checkered sweaters while jeering at the working class boys that the characters seem like cardboard replicas from an I.,I., Bean catalogue...
Michigan C 155 Hart plays well on college campuses. Big Labor remains loyal to Mondale...