Word: orderers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trial in Superior Court, lawyers for Babets and Jean asked Judge James P. Lynch Jr. to order the Dukakis administration to divulge certain documents relating to the policymaking process...
After inspecting the documents in his chambers, Lynch ordered the government to surrender the requested papers. But Lynch stayed his own order and referred the constitutional questions to the appellate courts...
Although Allende won the presidential elections of 1970 by a democratic vote, the United States, allegedly through the work of the CIA, supported the coup of 1973. Fifteen years later, Pinochet still rules and maintains "order" in Chile. Not once has President Reagan singled out Pinochet's regime as being a threat to democracy...
...strong military leader that some of his followers had hoped for. These followers Judas among them, expected Christ to lead a successful revolt against the Romans. They did not understand His reluctance to seize temporal power. According to this explanation, Judas betrayed Christ to the Romans in order to force His hand. Judas hoped to trigger a showdown between Christ and Caesar, a showdown that he expected Christ...
Moreover, Sheehy astutely but unoriginally points out, some of our most recent presidents have been victimized not by bad policies, but by dangerous "character flaws." Richard Nixon's downfall was not Watergate, the argument goes, but his own feeling of paranoia that led him to order the break-ins. Likewise, Reagan's downfall was not the Iran-contra scandal in itself, but rather his inattention to detail and his willingness to delegate responsibility to zealots like Oliver North...