Word: proconsul
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...authority to Moscow's army commander. With this tacit admission by the Soviets that they were the only real authority in the country, some diplomatic observers predicted they might also soon do away altogether with the fiction of an indigenous government and replace Karmal with a Kremlin-appointed proconsul. Karmal himself was believed to have holed up inside the Soviet embassy; even at the height of the crisis last week, he was seen only once, on television, and then only in a rerun of an agriculture program...