Word: omar
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...general also has a significant civilian power base among Panama's nonwhite majority. It stems from his image as the protector of la revolucion, the shift in political power led by Omar Torrijos Herrera, who seized control of the military in a coup 21 years ago. A cholo (a Spanish-American Indian), Torrijos gave fellow cholos, blacks, Chinese and other nonwhites new influence, both within the military and in the government. This broke the traditional monopoly held by the country's wealthy class of European descendants...
...coup came as no surprise. The armed forces had demonstrated unusual restraint during the Prime Minister's ineffectual reign, which neither advanced a political settlement in the savage six-year-old civil war nor dealt with the country's vicious poverty and famine. Speaking for the rebellious forces, Brigadier Omar Hassan Ahmed el Bashir said el Mahdi had "wasted the country's time and squandered its energies with much talk and policy vacillation...
...published last year). Sherry, a professor of literature at Trinity University in San Antonio, has yet to tackle Greene's Africa service with British intelligence, his marital breakup, love affairs, involvements with the movie business, anti-Americanism and friendships with left-wing Latin American leaders Fidel Castro and Omar Torrijos of Panama. One should also expect deep penetration of the privacy that surrounds Greene's life in the south of France, where he has lived since the '60s. A genuine coup would be the identity of the Swedish Academy member who, as rumor has it, blocks Greene's path...
...come up with an agenda of solutions, which we are doing. But the larger challenge for all of us is to shift the world's political system into a new state of equilibrium, characterized by more cooperation, global agendas and a focus on the future. As General Omar Bradley said at the end of World War II, "It is time we steered by the stars and not by the lights of each passing ship...
...1930s Maidenform shocked the world by using photos of actual women modeling its bras in national advertisements. For the past year, the company has gone to the opposite extreme: featuring actors Omar Sharif, Michael York and L.A. Law's Corbin Bernsen, musing about ladies and lingerie with nary a bra, teddy or pair of panties in sight. Owing in part to the $10 million campaign, Maidenform's revenues rose 11% this year, to $200 million...