Word: loyalities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DIED. Charles S. Murphy, 74, influential adviser to Presidents; of heart disease; in Anne Arundel County, Md. A reticent lawyer and loyal Democrat, Murphy served as John Kennedy's Under Secretary of Agriculture and Lyndon Johnson's chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board, but he was most influential as a member of Harry Truman's "little Cabinet" of advisers and friends, who talked strategy in the White House late into the night...
...partisanship implants within our free system the seeds of its destruction." A collision is coming, he said. "Americans are demanding performance, not partisanship, not provocations, not promises." The Democrats in their midterm convention in Philadelphia last summer seemed like a collection of caucuses (gays, women, blacks, et cetera) fiercely loyal only to themselves. If there was a transcending theme, nobody caught it amid all the self-centered statements and accusations...
...long run, Aquino felt, he would be an obstacle to their political ambitions. Aquino was known to fear Armed Forces Chief Ver above all others in the Marcos circle. A four-star general who was once Marcos' driver and bodyguard, Ver is considered to be totally loyal to the President and is widely regarded as the second most powerful man in the Philippines...
...happen to believe that Marcos is the only man who can return democracy peacefully. Before martial law the army did not participate in government, but they have tasted blood and power. Marcos made them partners. As long as he is alive, it's O.K., the army is loyal to him. But when he dies, they will take over. If that should happen, there would be polarization, and the left could come to power...
Nonetheless, the book's publication presages a major housecleaning of the 39 million-member Communist Party, which includes numerous local officials and army officers who rose to power during the Cultural Revolution and have remained loyal to Mao's precepts. A widely circulated government statement has announced that study of Deng's book is "important ideological preparation for an overall party consolidation to be started this autumn and winter." For three years the party rosters will be reviewed, and members with leftist leanings or who are convicted of political or economic crimes are likely to be dropped...