Word: savioring
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...Savior. The wonder is that there is anyone left in Haiti to set off bombs. In his years as President, Duvalier has stamped out virtually all opposition, executing 2,000 political enemies and driving the rest into exile or terrified silence. The Tonton Macoute is so ubiquitous that Haitians are afraid to talk to anyone they have not known for several years. The illiterate and docile peasants, who make up 90% of the Haitian population, believe what the government tells them-and it tells them ceaselessly that Papa Doc is their savior, to be revered on a par with Jesus...
Waiting for the results of last week's legislative elections, Charles de Gaulle could relax with the easy self-assurance of a national savior. All of the experts had promised him a majority every bit as handsome as the one he enjoys in the current Assembly...
...possibility that some of those dollars would be cashed in for gold. The U.S. Treasury last week noted that France, with gold purchases of $221 million, was the only nation to convert dollars into gold "significantly" during the second quarter of 1966. To allow the U.S. to continue as savior of the pound and at the same time to protect the U.S. from gold losses, the Europe-Canada-Japan group upped its pledge to the U.S. from $2 billion to $3 billion...
...within the church that has transformed other aspects of Spain. Perhaps the single most conservative group of prelates in the church, the 82 Spanish bishops average 65 years of age; all owe their appointments to Franco,* and most are old enough to still think of him primarily as the savior whose crusade spared the church from the terrors of Communism. By contrast, most of Catholicism's influential lay leaders, and almost half of its 34,500 priests, are under 40. Many of the priests are of working-class origin, and feel strongly that the church has lost touch with...
Rockefeller not only reached Michigan's George Romney, who was waiting on the second floor, he embraced him as the party's most promising national leader and potential savior. Addressing 2,400 Republicans at a $100-a-plate fund-raising dinner for the Nassau County G.O.P., Rocky noted that both Romney and New York's Republican Senator Jacob Javits were on hand. "It's nice to have them here together," he said pointedly. "I find a growing feeling among Republicans that it might be nice to have them together in our future...