Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were selling guns and ammunition. They don't care to whom, they just want the money. And this is why anybody who engages in corruption is a weak link in the entire organization. He must be eliminated. We are all agreed, from the chief of staff all the way down, that we have to cleanse the ranks...
...contrary, even in the executive committee or the supercabinet, she is not a member. If 1 died or if I were in any way disqualified from continuing as President or Prime Minister, under the constitution, it is specifically provided that the Batasang Pambansa [the pro-Marcos interim legislature] chooses the successor. And I don't know why everybody is in doubt. The members of the permanent Batasang Pambansa will be elected again in 1984. They will help to decide who the Prime Minister is all over again. Now if all those people want to change me, they can work...
...Methodist minister, Neto had spent years in prison and exile. When Portugal granted independence to the 400-year-old colony in 1975, Neto's Popular Liberation Movement of Angola (M.P.L.A.), backed by Russia and Cuba, became involved in a three-way power struggle with the rival guerrilla forces of Jonas Savimbi and Holden Roberto, both of whom had Western support. After gaining the upper hand with the aid of some 2,000 Cuban troops, Neto embarked on a troubled presidency marred by continued civil war, serious economic difficulties and bitter dissension within his party...
...bitterly denounced by Pretoria's critics at home and abroad. Says Zulu Chief Minister Gatsha Buthelezi, who adamantly opposes independence for his native Kwazulu: "We are not prepared to be a participant in this great political confidence trick. We are still South Africans and we will stay that way until we can share in the political decision-making and economic wealth of this great country...
...support for clearly and often cruelly undemocratic regimes. When an old fascist like Spain's Francisco Franco died in 1975, thus finally permitting the restoration of democracy, or when the junta of Greek Colonels self-destructed in 1974 by instigating an abortive coup in Cyprus and made way for the return of Constantine Caramanlis, the U.S. reacted with general relief. Still, the world is full of dictatorships, the U.S. has to deal with most of them, and simply condemning them on moral grounds is not a policy. Support for many of these regimes is widely accepted as necessary...