Word: loyalities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...authority with white cronies, installed and removed budget directors and comptrollers in rapid succession, and ran the city with a feisty flamboyance that was not always attractive. Coupled with a 12.8% jobless rate that has fallen unevenly on minorities, her policies cost her the backing of the once machine-loyal black community...
...real reason for Nkomo's detention was that Zimbabwe is veering closer to open warfare, at least in Matabeleland, where the government is conducting a savage military campaign against Ndebele guerrillas loyal to Nkomo. Led by the North Korean-trained Fifth Brigade, government troops have reportedly killed hundreds of villagers over the past few weeks. Says Minister of State for Defense Sydney Sekeramayi: "The brigade will stay put until the dissident problem is settled...
...capital, that the Socialists and Communists were "consummate artists when it comes to lying." Former Premier Raymond Barre blasted the government for the "cacophony" of its contradictory policies. Mitterrand remained above the fray, but Socialist First Secretary Lionel Jospin and Communist Boss Georges Marchais tried to drum up the loyal leftist vote in the suburban industrial "Red belt" around Paris. Marchais told a rally in Communist-controlled Villejuif, "The right is dangerous! We must throw all our forces into battle...
...traditional as campaign buttons for Presidents to nominate like-minded judges, but Reagan has been unusually loyal to his party. Says University of Massachusetts Politics Professor Sheldon Goldman, a longtime student of appointments: "This Administration has selected a higher percentage of partisans than any since Woodrow Wilson's." Goldman calculates that Reagan has gone outside his party for only 2.9% of his district court appointments, compared with 4.5% for Jimmy Carter and 7.2% for Richard Nixon. One aspect of the political pattern has even the Administration upset, however. Under the longstanding system of "senatorial courtesy," the President generally fills...
...freeze on scheduled tax reductions effective Dec. 31, 1983," a move that would leave the July cut intact. To O'Neill, it appeared that Rostenkowski was pre-empting the Speaker's role as leadership spokesman. He called a meeting the next day and tore into his once loyal lieutenant. "You made me look like a fool, Dan!" O'Neill thundered...