Word: strongmanism
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However brazen the bluff, the name-dropping worked. To prospective investors, Rewald looked gilt-edged by association: he bought a $950,000 house previously owned by deposed Cambodian Strongman Lon Nol and became chummy with Jack Lord, star of the 1968-80 Hawaii Five-O TV series. "Investors" included Lieut. General Arnold Braswell, the Air Force's retiring Pacific commander (more than $100,000), and John Kindschi, the former CIA chief in Honolulu...
...prayer for the soul of the bloodied corpse before him: the earthly remains of the country's most famous and charismatic opponent-in-exile of the authoritarian rule of visibly ailing President Ferdinand Marcos, 65. Long regarded as Marcos' presidential successor before the country's strongman declared martial law in 1972, Aquino spent 7½A years in Philippine jails on charges of murder, illegal possession of firearms and subversion, and three more years of exile in the U.S. Ignoring innumerable threats and an official death sentence against him, Aquino returned home on Aug. 21. Within...
...Caspar W. Weinberger '38 made public the Admistration's plan to send $110 million in military aid to El Salvador, twice the amount the White House had previously requested. But Weinberger and Reagan are wasting their time training Salvadoran government troops to crush the rebelling peasants: the regime's strongman, Roberto d' Aubuisson, has already made his wishes explicitly clear. "All I want from the USA is napalm," he has said. "We must destroy completely to achieve pacification...
...June, the focus of U.S. attention in the Middle East shifted away from Lebanon and Israel briefly last week to the waters of the eastern Mediterranean, where the U.S. dispatched air and naval units. The move, clouded in secrecy and confusion, was prompted by reports that Libya's strongman, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, was concentrating his military forces in the southeastern corner of his country, thereby appearing to threaten the neighboring states of Sudan and Chad and alarming the government of Egypt...
...context of suspected threats and shadowy doubts, the President's crossed signals were understandable. Indeed, the first "clarifications" after the press conference only added to the confusion. TIME has learned why the U.S. intelligence community and the Pentagon were concerned: after a period of relative quiet, Libyan Strongman Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, 40, has apparently returned to his waspish ways. In the past six weeks, he has placed additional military units on the Tunisian border, provoked religious strife in Nigeria, and sponsored terrorists in the Central African Republic. Each of those taunts was minor, but another apparently...