Word: uniform
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there for a rare formal interview, the first given to U.S. journalists in a year. Looking very fit despite the effects of a dawn-to-dusk fast in observance of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, the Iraqi leader was a commanding presence in his field marshal's uniform as he discussed for two hours the tumult in the Middle East and his country's future. Excerpts...
Though Bignone shed his uniform in favor of a simple dark suit for his 24-minute televised inaugural address, he left no doubt about his allegiances. Said he: "I live in the bosom of the armed forces, and to them I give my gratitude." Such effusive fealty may have brought him to the Casa Rosada, but the prime test of his presidency will be how to coax his army patrons into accepting free elections...
Taylor takes the tack that Haider is a victim of flattery, subtle intimidation and an inordinate love of the uniform. Out of the emotional stress accompanying his mother's senile dementia, Haider has written a pro-euthanasia novel. It conies to the Fuhrer's attention, and Haider admits to "the surge of pride in me! Reading that scrawled sentence in Adolf s shaky hand-It said: 'Written from the heart...
Orders are a chloroform he almost welcomes, for they put to sleep his sense of right and wrong. Thus he becomes chairman of the book-burning committee at his university and, resplendent in his SS uniform, goes out to police the burning of synagogues. His adoring mistress (Felicity Dean) convinces him that if they are good to each other and hurt no one knowingly, they are intrinsically good...
...wanted. She has said that her Princeling will travel with his parents on state tours. It was presumably also Diana-who had worked with children-who had the last word when it came to hiring the nanny, Barbara Barnes, 39, who says firmly that she will not wear a uniform and has learned her philosophy of governance (plenty of fresh air and exercise, among other things) on the job-not by going to Nanny...