Word: loyally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...acted as one of the council's four moderators. Pope John selected him as a special emissary to the U.N. to present the now famous papal peace encyclical, Pacem in Terns. After John died, Suenens worked closely with his good friend Paul VI, to whom he remains affectionately loyal even now. "It's not the engineer that I am criticizing," Suenens has said, "it's the locomotive...
...ranges far beyond Belgium. Across Europe and North America, Catholic progressives look on his measured criticism as a vital necessity to church reform. At 65, Suenens considers himself too old to be Pope, but he has clearly developed a constituency and career of his own as leader of a loyal opposition within the church. "We haven't heard the last from him," says one of his few close friends in the Vatican. "He is only getting started...
...thrown her prestige behind Acting President V. V. Giri, but the Syndicate vetoed his nomination. Then Indira switched her support to Food and Agriculture Minister Jagjivan Ram. The Syndicate, however, forced through the approval of Sanjiva Reddy, Speaker of the Lok Sabha (lower house of parliament) and a loyal Syndicate member. Indira was furious and decided to strike back directly at Finance Minister Desai, who had opposed her plan to nationalize the banks...
...Giscard d'Estaing, 43, Finance Minister, was Pompidou's second choice for the job, after Antoine Pinay, France's personification of financial stability, turned the post down. Giscard was an obvious alternative, if a controversial one to loyal Gaullists, who dubbed him "Giscariot" after he opposed De Gaulle in the April referendum. Brilliant, rich and openly ambitious, Giscard affects an image à la Kennedy, has had himself photographed skiing France's Grande-Motte glacier and hunting wild boar in the Soviet Union. During his four years as De Gaulle's Finance Minister, he imposed drastic...
...Alain Poher, picked the winning side when Pompidou promised to abolish the propaganda-prone Ministry of Information (a promise that Pompidou kept last week). Handsome and brainy, Duhamel is forthrightly Europe-minded and pro-U.S.-and almost certainly headed for frequent clashes with the Cabinet's loyal Gaullists...