Word: steadfastly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Soviet influence. So has the Sudan, which is currently aiding the Eritrean secessionists in Ethiopia even though its Soviet-furnished army and air force are short of equipment; the Sudanese suffered considerable losses while putting down an attempted coup last year that allegedly was backed by Libya, the most steadfast of the remaining Soviet clients in the region. Libya, of course, has just finished fighting a weekend war with Egypt, which abrogated its friendship treaty with Moscow only last year. Egypt has also warned Libya to knock off its guerrilla activities against Chad, a former French territory adjacent to Libya...
...other countries, notably Libya, the organization has had to care for 4,000 disabled fighters as well as dependents of the dead. Widows continue to receive $75 a month, parents $25, brothers or sisters $10 and children $5 each. Since the war, the P.L.O. has founded Samed (Arabic for steadfast), a kind of poor man's conglomerate of 24 factories and workshops in Lebanon that provide jobs for 2,300 disabled fedayeen and Palestinian women. They work at such diverse operations as handicrafts, ready-to-wear clothing, furniture building and film making...
...Cavallon at the Neuberger Museum at Purchase, N.Y.-amplified by two Manhattan exhibits of 25 early Cavallon paintings at the Patricia Learmonth Gallery and nine late ones at the Gruenebaum Gallery-shows how unjust that neglect has been. It brings into full view one of the most lucid, steadfast and lyrically articulate bodies of work in modern American painting...
...Secretary of Transportation under Nixon, Conally withstood the onslaught of Watergate and remained loyal to the end. Few remember his steadfast support of Nixon, which led him to publicly recommend that Nixon destroy the tapes in the face of Congress' requests. This stand may have reflected more self-interest than team loyalty: the tapes were damaging to Connally's own integrity. His indictment for involvement with the milk fund bribes was the last in the string of political blows that have befallen Big John in the past few years...
...calls up Mikey, asks him to bring cigarettes, then won't let him in the door. Mikey talks his way inside, gets milk and cream for Nicky's perforated ulcer, says he'll help him out of town. Nicky is wary, but Mikey remains steadfast. It is the best way to keep track of Nicky and make sure that he finally meets up with the fat guy who carries a pistol in a brown paper...