Word: ruler
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Mikhail Gorbachev may yet pull everybody back to square one, by changing his mind or getting the sack. Even if he stays on his present course, he will remain the ruler of a big country with large arsenals. There is enough history ahead for all but the most jaded. Once the malign magnetic field that held us with such power breaks, however, conservatives will have to find new ways to meet history. "Most of us," wrote political philosopher Kenneth R. Minogue in 1963, "are, in some degree or other, liberal. It is only the very cynical, the unassailably religious...
WASHINGTON--President Bush issued a new call yesterday for the overthrow of Panamanian ruler Manuel Antonio Noriega, saying "I wouldn't mind using force if it could be done in a prudent manner." But Bush emphasized he was not offering a blanket commitment of American troops...
...settlement between the Cambodian government and the tripartite resistance collapsed in August over the fate of the Khmer Rouge. Hun Sen refused to consider any power-sharing arrangement with the guerrillas who had turned Cambodia into a charnel house, and Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the country's former ruler and the titular head of the resistance, refused to come into a government without them. The combatants and their assorted international sponsors had hoped to reach agreement before the Vietnamese pullout. Now, with the occupiers gone and no political settlement in sight, the country is girding for further bloodshed. Most chilling...
...Dalai Lama, 54, was born Tenzin Gyatso. The son of a poor farmer, he was named spiritual and temporal ruler as the 14th Dalai Lama at age five, just before the Chinese army marched into Tibet. He fled Tibet in 1959 after a failed uprising against Chinese rule...
...roots, and Confucius is very much in vogue in China today. Not for that part of his philosophy that extols good-heartedness and broad-mindedness, but for his celebration of authority, hierarchy and anti-individualism. For the purposes of China's leaders, what counts is that Confucius presumed the ruler's right to rule...