Word: loyalities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President has shown no sign that he is giving up on Watt. White House Spokesman Larry Speakes said Reagan found Watt's comment "embarrassing" but accepted his apology. The President is loyal - to a fault, say some of his aides-to those who are loyal to him; Watt has definitely been that. There may also be a tactical reason for Reagan's tolerance for his ill-spoken Interior Secretary. As the Administration has taken increasingly centrist positions, Watt has provided a kind of ideological protection for Reagan's right flank...
...daughter Maureen, an adviser to the G.O.P. and the White House on women's issues, complained that during his tenure Watt has sent "enough apologies to the President to paper the wall. Why doesn't he just send his resignation?" That, she said, was what someone "truly loyal" to Ronald Reagan would...
...rally was an ill-timed disaster. Some 2,000 ostensibly loyal demonstrators turned up Tuesday as ordered, bearing WE LOVE MARCOS banners and chanting the President's name. Suddenly, pro-Aquino spectators along the parade route set fire to several official banners, and waved others proclaiming WE ARE STILL FOR NINOY. Shouts of "Marcos! Marcos!" suddenly became shouts of "Ninoy! Ninoy!" as some marchers dared to bolt from the pro-Marcos ranks. The few groups who genuinely supported the President were pelted with coins, eggs and rocks from surrounding office buildings. The gathering broke up only after Makati...
...while both DiCara and Kearney trail badly in all recent polls, the potential is there for one or the other to sneak up behind the leaders. Polling has also shown that support for the leaders is "soft," meaning that voters may not remain loyal...
Though the Lebanese claims were presumably exaggerated for propaganda reasons, Western diplomats believe that Syria has allowed between 1,000 and 1,500 Palestinians, many of them loyal to Syrian-based Palestinian Rebel Leader Said Mousa, to join the fighting. P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat arrived unexpectedly in the northern Lebanese port city of Tripoli late last week, perhaps because of his concern over the growing involvement of various Palestinian factions...