Word: strongman
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Until last week, no one had been certain that Strongman Balaguer and his loyal generals would actually leave. In May, when it became clear that Balaguer's right-wing Reformist Party was losing the election badly, the generals had ordered a halt to the vote counting. Immediately there was heavy pressure, both from within the country and from Washington. Jimmy Carter sent word that if Balaguer attempted a coup d'état, the U.S. would order sanctions against the illegal regime. Balaguer's supporters resented the interference, but they got the message...
...army Land Rovers equipped with machine guns appeared on street corners, the nature of the tempest became clear. Officers of the 15,000-man Mauritanian army, led by Lieut. Colonel Mustapha Ould Mohammed Salek, 42, had overthrown the regime of President Moktar Ould Daddah, 53, the mild-mannered strongman who had ruled the poverty-stricken country of 1.5 million Muslims since it gained independence from France...
...Viva Jimmy! Hola Jimmy!" shouted tens of thousands of exuberant Panamanians last week as they greeted Jimmy Carter at a rally in Panama City's Cinco de Mayo Plaza. While the President beamed, Strongman Omar Torrijos kissed Rosalynn and declared that her husband "had the courage to throw himself without a parachute into the pages of history." It was a euphoric moment, the high point of a week in which Carter moved with energy and briskness through a busy schedule of diplomatic and domestic events...
This one could have featured the Greater Boston League's answer to the Hank Aaron-Sadaharu Oh home run contest, with Harvard slugger Mike Stenhouse taking on B.C. strongman Greg Stewart. Stenhouse provided his share of heroics during the game, banging out three hits, but Stewart's bat remained relatively quiet...
...especially worried about the regime of Nicaraguan Strongman Anastasio Somoza Debayle, who is using torture to combat leftist guerrillas. Pérez has proposed an economic boycott against Somoza. According to a U.S. official, Carter told Pérez the U.S. is "not going to take actions that are going to get us in a position of bringing about the downfall of a leader of a country." But Carter did call for an investigation of the situation in Nicaragua by the United Nations or the Organization of American States...