Word: strongman
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...Saddam is the Arab world's newest and most determined strongman, and he is not about to allow himself to be toppled from his pinnacle by simple negligence. His bold designs to supplant the late Shah of Iran as the watchdog and kingpin of the Persian Gulf have made him a force to be reckoned with throughout the region. At times, in fact, his behavior seems oddly reminiscent of the ousted Iranian monarch-his largesse with the nation's new-found oil wealth, for example, and in his touches of self-esteem that some critics say verge...
...show trial was widely interpreted as an attempt by President Chun Doo Hwan, the general who emerged earlier this year as South Korea's new military strongman, to muzzle any vestiges of political opposition. The popular, soft-spoken Kim had won 46% of the vote against President Park Chung Hee in the country's 1971 presidential election. Afterward, in voluntary exile abroad, he became an active spokesman against Park's authoritarian rule. In 1973 he was kidnaped from a Tokyo hotel room by the Korean Central Intelligence Agency and dragooned back to Seoul. He remained under house...
...most vital Pacific allies. Thus Kim's foreign supporters could only hope that he might win the legal appeals open to him, first before the appellate military court and then the supreme court. Failing that, his last chance would rest on an act of clemency if Strongman Chun were to heed the court of international opinion...
DIED. General Anastasio Somoza Debayle, 54, Nicaragua's longtime strongman who was ousted last year; of bazooka and machine-gun fire after leaving his exile villa; in Asunción, Paraguay (see WORLD...
...another arena of Middle Eastern affairs, a curious courtship was taking place between Libya and Syria. On the occasion of the eleventh anniversary of his country's revolution, Libyan Strongman Muammar Gaddafi unexpectedly proposed an "immediate" merger with Syria. Equally unexpected was the almost instantaneous reply of Syrian President Hafez Assad: "We extend our arm to meet with yours in unity." Syria is at loggerheads with two of its Arab neighbors, Iraq and Jordan, and is desperately short of cash, so a union with Libya might conceivably work to its benefit. But such merger proposals, offered in the name...