Word: moi
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Sooner or later, most administrations make some version of the Sun King's mistake. "L'état, c'est moi," Louis XIV of France is said to have declared--"I am the state." To criticize becomes downright unpatriotic...
Sooner or later, most presidential administrations make some version of the Sun King's mistake. "L'état, c'est moi," Louis XIV of France is said to have declared - "I am the state." To criticize the man becomes downright unpatriotic...
...with police forces just 10 months before. Some army commanders are not shy about complaining about the police. "I am very sure that the Iraqi Army is equipped and ready to handle the situation after Jan. 1," said another commander, Col. Abbas al-Moussawi. "We're not sure MOI [Ministry of the Interior, a reference to Iraqi police] forces are ready...
...Britain] had many interests in Kenya, and Moi was a very volatile man. A snap of his fingers and he could have kicked people out of there very quickly," Ward said. "I think there were people in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office who looked at the big board and thought 'look, we can't bring this girl back, sad as it is, she's dead. Moi doesn't want this to be a murder. Let's support Moi.' And that's what they did," he said...
...interview with the BBC, Ward suggested that the obstruction of the investigation had been motivated by the desire not to anger Kenya's then president, Daniel arap Moi, a key Cold War ally at the time. An open acknowledgment that Ward had been brutally murdered might have raised uncomfortable questions, and perhaps put a serious damper on the country's tourism industry...