Word: loyalities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...water isn't hard to guess. Since 1975 his administration has been increasingly dominated--and plagued--by the growth of his personal political machine, created by White alternatively call in his election to a third term. At first, White's worries were only over whether his crew of loyal city employees would prove effective. "My vaunted political machine is moving," he said during the 1979 campaign, his fourth but the machine's first, adding. "I'm just not sure whether it's going to go forward or back up and run over me." "That fall it ran over White...
...them when 4000 layoffs had to be made after the passage of Proposition 2 1/2 White may charge Weld, a Republican, with political motives, but Weld has a lot to go on, most of all the apparent attempt to launder $122,000 in campaign funds by giving it to loyal employees, who in turn donated it as gifts for a planned birthday party for Mayor White's wife in 1981 (The party, which would have been held at the Museum of Fine Arts, was cancelled after public outcry over its extravagance...
...13th century Japanese courtesan who became a Buddhist nun; Dull Gret (Carole Hayman), who led an avenging legion of women into the precincts of hell in Brueghel's painting Dulle Griet; and finally, Patient Griselda (Lesley Manville), made famous in Boccaccio and Chaucer as the model of a loyal, submissive wife...
...loyal ambassador quits...
Fiallos' remarks echo those of many other critics, but they were particularly stinging to the Sandinistas because the diplomat was for several years a loyal revolutionary. A deeply religious man with close personal ties to Obando y Bravo, he secretly joined the Sandinista National Liberation Front in 1978, when the movement was still an armed underground force. During the anti-Somoza insurrection, he secretly stored and transported arms for the guerrillas' organized clandestine rebel meetings. Washington has authorized Fiallos, who has not yet decided whether to return to Nicaragua, to stay in the U.S. indefinitely. Said he last...