Word: reines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...former chief aide, José González, was published in November and became an instant bestseller. According to González, the chief spent lavishly on family and friends, flying as many as 300 guests in police helicopters to his estate for weekend parties. He kept a tighter rein on his men in uniform. By denying them necessary resources for their work, he encouraged them to supplement their paltry salaries with bribes...
...attack against a Saudi added a new and troubling element to the violent Lebanese equation. The Syrians, who occupy the area of the Bekaa Valley that serves as a base for the pro-Iranian fanatics, have allowed the extremists fairly free rein. But Saudi Arabia bankrolls Syria to the tune of $1 billion a year, and Saudi diplomats have frequently acted as mediators in intra-Arab disputes. In tacit recognition of their status, Saudi diplomats had been exempt from the terror that has made victims of both Arabs and non-Arabs in Beirut. As the week passed, there...
Those were the good times. Given free rein by Canadian Owner Roy Thomson, Evans turned the Sunday Times toward tough and thorough investigative reporting, assigning as many as 18 people to long-term projects. This challenge proved both expensive and risky. Evans calls the British press "half-free" in comparison with U.S. papers. It is easy to incur heavy penalties in England for printing information that the government considers secret; running stories that could prejudice court trials might land an editor in jail. Still, in spite of stiff official resistance, the Sunday Times managed to publish uncensored excerpts from...
Over the past ten years, the treatment of insulin-dependent, or Type I,* diabetes has undergone a quiet revolution. D.S.C.P. is one of several programs that have sprung up around the country to spread the gospel of this movement. Its watchword is tight control, or keeping a close rein on the disease so that the body can function as normally as possible at all times. In practice, this means a lot of hard work...
McFarlane, a former Marine officer, objected on principle to the fact that Nitze had "wandered off the reservation." He drafted a memorandum for Clark to send to Shultz, reprimanding Nitze for exceeding his instructions and asking Shultz to rein him in. McFarlane also questioned the military wisdom of giving up the Pershing II, which would leave the U.S. with only cruise missiles to counter the Soviets' ballistic...