Word: presidental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Homeland independence was long opposed by Venda's new President Mphephu, who has headed the tribal territory since 1962. But Mphephu apparently turned an about-face last year after Pretoria helped him outmaneuver some opposition leaders who threatened to overthrow him. Invoking South African emergency laws, Mphephu jailed 50...
When word that Argentina had won the world junior soccer championship in Tokyo reached Buenos Aires, the country burst into frenzied celebration. Two days later, thousands of screaming fans gathered in the capital's Plaza de Mayo as President Jorge Rafael Videla welcomed home the squad, still beaming from...
Where a despot of either the right or the left has ruled in relative isolation, he has been more likely to fall of his own weight and more vulnerable to internal enemies. To wit: the Greek Colonels, who were America's sons of bitches, and Sukarno of Indonesia, who...
Aside from quarreling over who "lost" Iran and Nicaragua, many in the Carter Administration would agree with Kissinger that there are great risks in pulling the rug out from under a longtime client without a plausible, acceptable successor well positioned to take over. "It's an unhappy fact of...
Its recent traumatic experiences in Iran and Nicaragua have plunged the Carter Administration into an overdue reappraisal of the way the U.S. deals with dictators. The President has put the intelligence community, the State Department and the National Security Council on notice that never again must the decline and fall...