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...teach people about the importance of staff," he says. "A reliable and loyal staff is one of the most important and overlooked decisions a governor has to make. I tell them, 'you're elected governor, what are you going...
...last half of the book is an off-and-on lecture by Connor on the Japanese character: they are "the most racist people on earth," he says, group loyal and contemptuous of erratic Western individualism. A Japanese changes personality from situation to situation, and thus lying is simply an adjustment to circumstances...
...unprepared to handle. Owen Browne, fortyish, a graduate of the Naval Academy who served four years in Vietnam, now sells pleasure boats for an outfit called Altan Marine. Ruggedly handsome -- he appears in company promotional videotapes -- Browne is also by most conventional standards a good person, dutiful, loyal and faithful to Anne, an editor, writer and his wife of 20 years. The Brownes have a comfortable Connecticut house, an island summer retreat and a mildly rebellious teenage daughter. Owen is, in other words, a prime candidate for mid-life crisis. Sure enough, one arrives: "For his own part...
Instead, defense lawyers are trying to show that Noriega was a loyal U.S. ally in the war on drugs by extracting testimony from a series of former U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration chiefs and their high-ranking aides. One by one, the flattering "Dear General Noriega" letters sent by former DEA administrators came out in embarrassing procession last week. The authors claimed on the witness stand that they were merely being "diplomatic" and didn't really mean it when they praised Noriega for his "unprecedented" help and "long-standing support." In reality, groused former DEA administrators Peter Bensinger and John Lawn...
Perez was able to return to his office a few hours later. Most of the armed forces had remained loyal, and air force F-16 jets strafed rebel positions, blocking their movements and disrupting their communications. The coup leader, Lieut. Colonel Hugo Chavez Frias, 37, dressed in combat gear and a red paratrooper's beret, turned himself in 12 hours after the shooting began, but warned that the military might find "another occasion." More than 1,200 rebel soldiers surrendered, including 136 officers. Officials said as many as 7,000 of the 73,000 troops in the armed forces...